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The Lute's Tale

When they return from climbing in the gullies east of 'their' Amethyst, Alec and his sister Lydia find themselves chased by angry ghosts and take refuge in a different Amethyst--a town built on stilts in the waters of Lake Shimmer. Only the Great Lute in the Teller House protects the people of the town from the spirits' revenge.

But on the very night Alec and Lydia arrive, the Lute is stolen. They must venture to the haunted shore and get it back--yet if they do, they will never return to their own time and place.

Forthcoming Books
The City and The Stony Stars
Michael's having nightmares, over and over, of a frozen city, a giant iron crow. Nightmares are bad enough but when the Shim are involved dreams can come true, and before he knows it he and his sister, Jackie, are in the icy city of Caprice and time is running out.
If they don't find the mysterious Barb of Nadir soon, everything will freeze, including the stars, and they'll never make it home.

Into the Abyss

Simon and his friends find themselves transported across from a geography excursion on Lake Shimmer into a different, dangerous world.

Here the landscape has been split into two halves by an immense zigzag crack. Some being dwells at the bottom of the crack, some being that arrived in a cataclysmic impact many centuries ago. Now it keeps writhing and heaving, causing earthquakes and eruptions.

 Simon and his friends agree to go down into the depths, two kilometres below the surface. They risk being destroyed by a demon, a terrible elemental force--but Simon believes the mysterious being is in need of special assistance that only he can bring.

Citrine
When Joss, a down to earth country girl, meets spoiled fashionista, Sparkel, she instantly dislikes her. To make matters worse, the pair of them get sucked through Lake Shimmer to an alternate Amethyst town where teenagers rule and fashion is Queen. But an evil Citrine gem is controlling everyone. Joss must work with Sparkel free the captured Shimmaron from the evil Shimmaron, or they will never get back to their own time.