As her senior year of high school starts, Laurel is just beginning to adjust to Tamani's absence when he suddenly reappears, telling her he must guard her against the returning threat of the trolls that pose a danger both to her and to Avalon.
Seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City and befriends a group of very unusual characters who live in the city's subway tunnels and soon finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus.
Eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg dreams of fighting dragons and spends her days honing her skills, even though there are no dragons in her Orthodox Jewish community, but when she accepts a challenge from a mysterious witch, Mirka just might win her dragon-fighting sword after all.
Patch Ridling, a simple tailor's apprentice, saves his friend Osbert from an aging troll and his is summoned by King Milo to help wage war on a band of trolls trying to destroy the kingdom.
Examines legends about the origins of watchers--creatures that live in the shadows of the forests, including goblins, trolls, dwarfs, and gnomes, and explores the history and popular culture surrounding belief in these imaginary beings.
While all the fairies scurry to prepare for a rare birth of new woodfairies, someone plays mischievous pranks for which Laurel is blamed, so she and her pixie friend, Foxglove, plus an unexpected volunteer, set out to find the culprit.
Klig, the troll prince, enlists Alice and Bernard to help fight the dark forces which are attempting to bring about the fulfillment of the Seventh Prophecy.