Linda Zern

The Pocket Fairies of Middleburg Linda Zern

It's Halloween and Erica Emerson is dressed as a great knight, Joan of Arc. On the steps of A Treasure House of Strange and Curious Things, she discovers a tiny winged creature, shot through the shoulder with an arrow no bigger than a toothpick. Of course she has to tell someone. Of course she has to try to get help. Of course she knocks on the door of the mysterious second-hand shop. And, of course there is more to this situation than free candy on a misty, magical night. THE LEGEND OF THE TOADSTONE: In the middle ages, folks believed that a jewel grew in the heads of toads, a stone with magic and healing and power in it. Who wouldn't want one for their very own?