Apprentice Septimus Heap must enter the Darke to save the Castle and the Wizard Tower from destruction, but he needs the help of many to battle the spreading Darkenesse.

Destined to become a sacrifice on behalf of her superstitious people, Csorwe accepts a powerful mage's alternate offer to become his bodyguard and spy to help him reclaim his power in the land from where he was exiled.

When Tom's father, Taladon, returns as a ghost, Tom must battle the Ghost Beasts and collect the pieces of the shattered Amulet of Avantia to save him.

Pulled through a glass that brings him back in time, Septimus Heap becomes the apprentice of an alchemist.

Xar and Wish team up against the Kingwish to flee the Mine of Happiness and its starved magical creatures, including a grotesque Tazzelwurm monster that blocks their escape.

Racing against time, Jonah and Emma, who possess unique magical gifts, work to uncover the truth about Thorn Hill, a peaceful commune that the Wizard Guild claims is a hotbed of underguild terrorists.

When a thirteenth-century wizard confronts twenty-first century Boston while seeking his pet dragon, he is followed by a rival wizard and a very unhappy demon, but eleven-year-old Theodora Oglethorpe may hold the secret to setting everything right.

The dark wizard Maldred has trapped dragon master Eko as well as wizards who have opposed him, all of them frozen in time and space inside a wall in his hideout; so Drake and Worm set out to seek the help of the Time Dragon--but when a imp named Beezel interferes Drake ends up back in his own past, and he must find a way to get back to the present.

With Vastia under attack from Paksahara's zombie army, the familiars Aldwyn the cat, Skylar the blue jay, and Gilbert the tree frog must gather seven descendants from the most ancient and powerful animals in the queendom to bring Paksahara down.

A conclusion to the best-selling series finds Lawrence and the dragon Temeraire pursuing a defeated French army, only to discover that Napoleon has returned unharmed to Paris and that the French have stolen Temeraire and Iskierka's egg.