A grotesque foundling turns against the witch who sacrificed almost everything to raise him when he becomes consumed by the desire for money and revenge against those who have hurt him, but he eventually finds his true heart's desire.
Jack Worthing creates a fictitious brother Earnest who lives in London to escape his dull country routine, but finds the lie backfiring when he falls in love.
In the West Virginia town of Way Down Deep in the 1950s, a foundling called Ruby June is happily living with Miss Arbutus at the local boarding house when suddenly, after the arrival of a family of outsiders, the mystery of Ruby's past begins to unravel.
Ten-year-old Solomon Snow, a foundling who was discovered with a distinctive silver spoon in his mouth, sets out to find his parents and receives help along the way from an aspiring writer, a precocious young circus performer, and several orphans.
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
Heart sneaks back into her village when her beloved unicorn Moonsilver is injured by a hunter's arrow, seeking help from the healer Ruth Oakes, but she is forced to flee again when she learns the cruel Lord Dunraven knows about the unicorn's existence, with only the gift of Ruth's silver thread for help.
A lonely young girl named Heart finds companionship at last when she discovers a pregnant mare in the forest, but she has a fight on her hands when her mean-spirited guardian decides to have the mare and her disfigured foal slaughtered by the town soap maker.
