This is the story of a young man severly scarred on his face who thinks he would be willing to do anything to be noticed as a person. He is offered a new face if he helps kidnap a young boy. After he meets and gets to know the child he finds that he values his humanity too much to harm the boy and helps the boy escape into an alien world even though it means becoming a monster in the eyes of the world again.

The turning books are all interesting. Each giving a different insight into the WW series. Bringing new thoughts and ideas...a very satisfying read...as all the books in this trilogy were. They are all good additions to your library.

this was the first book that i read that i looked at the authors name so i counld find other books written by her.it starts with a photographer being where he shoudnt be and getting caught in a time travel experiment and being sent to the really,really ancient past. there is wonderful character development and great what if questions.the science is fuzzy this being more of a science fantasy than hard science fiction.this is a fun book.

Michael Karl's dreams for the future do *not* include becoming the monarch of an obscure Ruritanian kingdom but he soon discovers he has no say in the matter. He, the result of a misalliance between a Morvanian Prince and an American girl, is now the sole heir to the throne.
However not all of his future subjects are welcoming. On his way to his capital Michael Karl is captured and threatened by a rebel leader known as the Werewolf, apparently because he is one! Escaping Michael lands on the doorstep of an American Journalist in the guise of a distressed fellow citizen resolutely concealing his royal identity.
All Michael wants is to go home to America but even incognito he can't help but get caught up in the political turmoil of his ancestral land and begins to wonder if maybe the Werewolf doesn't have a point after all.

Chris Fitton's father and Nan Mallory's mother recently married, but this isn't the Brady Bunch by a long way. Chris has spent his life in one boarding school after another, while Nan's grandmother raised her during her mother's long assignments overseas as a photographer. Even now, Chris and Nan are living with Chris' aunt Elizabeth; their parents just got married and promptly took off for a 6 month assignment in Mexico. Neither kid has seen them since before they announced the wedding.

For years, Chris' father has given him money to buy presents, since he's never with his son much himself to get to know what he'd like. When aunt Elizabeth drops Chris and Nan off at a movie soon after Nan's arrival, Chris opts to shop for a present instead. In a strange store he's never been to before, he finds a very old model inn, bearing the sign of a red hart (i.e., a male red deer).

Chris and Nan soon discover that the Red Hart carries some kind of magic; in their dreams, they find themselves in the real Red Hart, an English inn, in various periods of the past.

"The King's Hunters", in King James' reign, finds the two of them thwarting a Pursuivant who attempts to prove that the inn's owner is secretly a Catholic priest (a capital offense in that place and time). Catherine Aird's mystery _A Most Contagious Game_ would be a good read for anyone who's interested in how priests managed to survive and the tricks used to build hiding places for them.

In "The Gentlemen", a wounded Excise officer is being sheltered from local smugglers in the inn. This story makes a sharp, interesting contrast to Vic Crume's _Dr. Syn Alias the Scarecrow_, a terrific book that's also a movie by Disney with Patrick McGoohan (the hardest Disney classic to find on video as of this writing, may I add). The chief of the smugglers in "The Gentlemen" is as anonymous as the masked Scarecrow - 'he could be any man in the village, leaving out the parson and the squire.' (If you've read or seen the Scarecrow's story, you'll get the joke.)

In "Hue and Cry", Chris is falsely accused of setting fire to Squire Mallory's barn, a blaze that could have killed several men. Harry Hawkins, a friend of his father's days in Wellington's army, one of the Bow Street runners, is called in by Ira Fitton to uncover the truth. (This is *long* before the runners evolved into the Bow Street Station of Anne Perry's Thomas Pitt.)

In the present, the kids have their own troubles, apart from getting along with each other. Nan is 'befriended' by the most popular girl in class - only to find that the price of entry into her circle is too high. Chris, on the other hand, is the favorite target of the most popular kid in *his* school - the bully who's captain of the soccer team. The lessons they learn in the past stand them in good stead.

I've just re-read this book for the ?th time. I first read it as a young adult when it was first published and in my local library. Ms. Nortons's expert descriptions of the horrows of war--especially civil war--are still haunting. Her characters come alive! I feel I know them. The sequel to "Ride Pround,Rebel", "Rebel Spurs" is just as good and complements the first. Enjoy!

The Waynes were just another ordinary family when they chose to stay at the Vargen Mansion one evening. After seeing it, the father decides to get his boss to see the house to possibly buy it. His job is to improve houses for resorts. The owners of the house however, don't exactly like that idea, and the only way they could stop it is if they could find the missing money.

This was a great book that always kept the reader guessing. It was the sort of book that gets your attention if it ever starts to lose it. The authors did a very good job of portraying how the lives of the people that live in the house, and that had lived in the house. The atmosphere created was set perfectly for each type of mood throughout the story. During times of excitement, I was able to feel my heart beat faster and faster.

This is a book I read as young girl - I really enjoyed it and re-read it. It is about a young boy brought up by pirates. It is an exciting adventure story with a surprise ending - I'm really looking forward to by daughters getting to read this book - Cindy Lee

The orphaned Joktar is on the run. A xenophobic maniac wants him dead because of his mysterious origins. He is sent fleeing for his life, leaving behind his life as a curiously young-looking Casino Dealer in the spaceport of N'Yok. He is captured and shipped as slave labor to the company run ice planet of Fenris. He escapes captivity and survives against all odds, with the help of some of his strange genetic quirks. He falls in with a group of freedom fighters, and finds a mysterious mentor. He thinks he is safe, but his enemies find him again. This time he decides to fight back... Nonstop action, and Norton's wonderfully drawn characters nake this a must read for anyone who loves space opera!

This is the story of the contact and trade teams of Earth.

A much larger and more powerful empire of the stars have to death with outward diplomacy. But is there a silent conspiracy from inside the trade agency. Is it for or against the will of Earth.

A good tale that compares cultures of different worlds and their similarities to Earth