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Joan Aiken Omnibus: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase / Black Hearts in Battersea / Nightbirds on Nantucket (Wolves Chronicles)
Joan Aiken Omnibus The Wolves of Willoughby Chase / Black Hearts in Battersea / Nightbirds on Nantucket - Wolves Chronicles Author:Joan Aiken Three books from the "Wolves Chronicles" in one volume: — THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE (Wolves Chronicles, Bk 1) — In this chilling beginning to The Wolves Chronicles, two little cousins are left in the care of an evil governess. They escape and travel 400 miles to London with their friend Simon and his geese. A sad an... more »d sinister howling arose. It was the far-off cry of wolves "Make haste, make haste! There is not a moment to be lost!" But Bonnie and her orphan cousin discover, the real danger lies not with the savage roaming beasts, but with the sinister new occupant of Willoughby Chase.
BLACK HEARTS IN BATTERSEA (Wolves Chronicles, Bk 2)
Simon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting. Instead he finds himself unwittingly in the middle of a wicked crew's fiendish caper to overthrow the good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea. With the help of his friend Sophie and the resourceful waif Dido, Simon narrowly escapes a series of madcap close calls and dangerous run-ins. In a time and place where villains do nothing halfway, Simon is faced with wild wolves, poisoned pies, kidnapping, and a wrecked ship. This is a cleverly contrived tale of intrigue and misadventure.
NIGHTBIRDS ON NANTUCKET (Wolves Chronicles, Bk 3)
Having had enough of life on board the ship that saved her from a watery grave, Dido Twite wants nothing more than to sail home to England. Instead, Captain Casket's ship lands in Nantucket, where Dido and the captain's daughter, Dutiful Penitence, are left in the care of Dutiful's sinister Aunt Tribulation. In Tribulation's farmhouse, life is unbearable. When mysterious men lurk about in the evening fog, the resourceful Dido rallies against their shenanigans with help from Dutiful, a cabinboy named Nate, and a pink whale.« less