Bücher der Reihe Tales of Aylfenhame

Lincoln, 1812. Grieving for a long-dead sister, Ilsevel is elated to learn that her twin may yet have survived - and angry, for at the centre of this decades-old tale is the traitor Wodebean. A cheat he may be, but he holds the key to her sister's life, and Ilsevel will travel the length and breadth of England to find him. But can she do it alone?Son of a disgruntled baker, Phineas Drake slaves away his days in his father's pastry shop, dreaming of a better life. Delivering plum-cakes in the dark of a winter's dawn, he sees a mysterious lady darting through the snow - alone, and in trouble. What can he do but follow?Caught up in the chaos of Ilsevel's quest, Phineas is far out of his depth - or is he? For the baker's boy is clever, and fiercely loyal. Already a force to be reckoned with, My Lady Silver's nigh-on unstoppable with Phineas at her side. And she'll need to be, for her quest will take her deep into the lawless depths of the Hollow Hills... A dreamy historical fantasy from the author of Faerie Fruit.

Tilby, Lincolnshire, 1811. Miss Sophia Landon is the unremarkable daughter of an impoverished clergyman. Her father's health is failing fast, but who wants to marry a woman without birth, beauty or wealth? Her prospects are limited indeed - until her friendship with the town's fae denizens earns her passage to the otherworldly realm of Aylfenhame. Could her fate truly lie beyond the shores of England? There she meets Aubranael, a young man with a warm heart and a ruined face. In Sophy he sees the answer to his loneliness, but how can a disfigured Aylir hope to win her heart? When a mysterious witch offers him the temporary gift of beauty, he eagerly accepts: and so begins an adventure that could change his life, and Sophy's, forever.

Tilby, Lincolnshire, 1812. Born into modest wealth and impeccable respectability, Miss Isabel Ellerby is expected to make an advantageous marriage. But an encounter with a Faerie Rade brings changes thick and fast, and Isabel's safe and conventional life changes forever.When she meets the handsome Ferryman of Aylfenhame, Isabel knows there is no going back. Condemned and forgotten as he is, Isabel is his only hope − for she alone possesses the heart, the will and the strength to unravel the dark curse which binds him.

The Lincolnshire Wolds, 1812. When housemaid Bessie Bell is thrown out into a cold October night, her prospects could scarcely seem worse. With nowhere to go and no one to help her, how will she survive? But on the road she meets a mysterious gentleman, and her fortunes take an immediate turn for the… strange. For the nightmare horse Tatterfoal stalks the fog-drenched Wolds, and Mr. Green is determined to catch him. But why?Caught up in a dark adventure, Bessie is swept far beyond the shores of England and into Faerie Aylfenhame. Dangers untold await the unwary in the Goblinlands, though the greatest dangers of all may lie right behind her. For Tatterfoal answers only to his master, the Goblin King…