Böcker av Rebecca Bischoff

In the dark fall of 1665, fifteen-year-old Kenna's sister is murdered. Kenna suspects her sister's husband, but if he is the murderer, Kenna will be next. As she flees her grandfather's Scottish estate to escape him, she finds herself in the clutches of a stranger. Kidnapped and taken to the city of Edinburgh, the stranger locks her inside the gate at the head of Stewart's Close, a long and narrow alleyway in the poorest section of the city (with only one way in or out). The local lawman accuses Kenna of leaving a house stricken with plague, sets a guard at the gate, and ties a white cloth there as a warning that disease has struck and no one may enter or leave the close. Kenna has no money, no friends, no shelter, and no way out. She wants nothing more than to escape and find justice for her murdered sister. But first, she has to survive.

Animal-loving Lizza thinks nothing can be worse than her dad''s taxidermy business, until Dad moves the family into an actual cave. Living inside a home carved into a giant rock formation in the desert is not exactly Lizza''s idea of fun. She''s on display for the curious tourists who tromp through her new home all day long. Lizza now has an even bigger goal: to get out of the cave and back into a real home. Her efforts fizzle until she involves animal rights activists and environmentalists, but she soon finds that her plans have unintended consequences. Now Lizza needs to get her family back together before they''re split apart for good.