Gemma, a young girl of 12 years old, is abused by her mother's boyfriend, Buddy. Buddy sells her for one hundred dollars to Hazen Wood, a vicious and abusive person who kidnaps Gemma. Hazen embarks on a cross-country journey with Gemma in the trunk of the car with Boxcar Julie, her turtle and best friend.
Modo and Octavia are english spies in 19th century England sent by the government to follow the french spy Colette Brunet and figure out what she has been sent to find. After Modo steals some important documents from a french ambassador, they learn that Colette Brunet was sent to work on an assignment called Project Ictineo. It soon becomes imperative for Octavia and Modo to find and claim Project Ictineo for England before Colette Brunetcan claim it in the name of France. Throughout the entire mission, Octavia and Modo are stalked by a mysterious and sinister presence.
After being in an abusive relationship, Amy just wants her life to be different, even if different means moving into a small trailer in a rural area with her Great-Aunt Mae. Henry Briggs wishes that he wasn't stuck in the eternal summer of 1944, avoiding the tragic events that would occur if he had lived past that day. One day Amy discovers a clearing, where she meets Henry, the most polite and decent boy she has ever met. He helps her deal with her past and she helps him deal with his future.
Mallory Tolliver has been sent by the Faerie Court to convince the mortal Phoebe Rothschild that she is ordinary. Phoebe is the bounty sought to settle an age-old debt between the Faerie Queen and Phoebe's ancestor, Mayer Rothschild. He had bargained with the Queen for five extraordinary sons in exchange for one ordinary daughter in a future generation of the Rothschild's. Mallory's mission was to become close to Phoebe, and then to break her into believing that she is ordinary. But Mallory becomes too emotionally close to Phoebe, which corrupts her mission.
When Joshua Garcia's father dies in a plane crash in Mexico, Josh decides to find out the mystery behind his father's death. He starts a blog about his journey, and finds a friend in one of his faithful readers, Ollie. After discovering some evidence of the reason behind his father's disappearance, Josh teams up with Ollie and Tyler, a boy from his Capoeira class to decipher some hieroglyphics on the ancient document. They discover that it is half of a letter telling where the IX Codex is.
Evan Davis and his partners, Kevin Bradley and Lily Ryan, handle dangerous and otherworldly cases in Philadelphia. Lily and Kevin (Brad) are daemons that belong to the second celestial sphere under the lord Ariton. When Matt Shields hires Evan to retrieve a box from the house of the recently deceased Grayson Donne, Evan is trapped in the middle of a battle between daemons and a rich people with a dangerous interest in the dark arts. During the investigation, Evan is captured by those people.
