"Salem's second favorite holiday has come knocking, with all of her beauty and ghostly white snow!" -- Page [4] of cover.

Cassandra Leung--a seventeen-year-old trainer of Reckoners, sea beasts bred to defend ships--is kidnapped by the pirate queen Santa Elena and ordered to train a Reckoner pup to defend Santa Elena's ship.

When the goat pasture is plagued with a foul stench, the Princess in Black and her friends must take on a stinky beast.

On her journey to the royal university to become a doctor, fifteen-year-old Evie, wearing potent gypsy charms, learns of her monstrous inheritance.

Talked into venturing to the fearsome otherworld dimension of the Secret Path by Bum, who has learned of a super-fun place there, Adam and his friends ignore Sally's reservations and find more than they expect.

"Conscripted into the dangerous Adventurers Guild, best friends Zed and Brock must defend what is left of humanity against terrible monsters in this epic fantasy."--