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Finnley McDougall’s boring schoolboy life in Seattle gets turned upside down when Great Uncle Hugh gives him a most unusual gift - a scruffy, rude, bad-tempered Scottish rock creature called Wullie who brings danger and disaster with him wherever he goes. From French snobs in fancy hotels, rusting barges on the Seattle waterfront, abandoned coalmines and flooded quarries in the Scottish hillsides filled with bullies, gangsters, slobbering dogs, and weird food Finn and his best friend Hadley Kobayashi are drawn into an evil plot that threatens to destroy everything he loves…including Edinburgh Castle.

Finnley McDougall’s best friend, Hadley, is dying of gomebane poison. The secret cure was lost 500 years ago when the Inca Empire collapsed. And unless he can control his emotions, Finn will stiffen up and turn to stone. Dealing with school bullies and obnoxious popular girls was a lot easier than this.

A beloved sculpture is stolen by an acid-spitting rock creature in Barcelona. A smart, brave 13-year-old girl deals with her father’s ditzy girlfriends in Seattle. A doleful sandstone gome battles wolf hounds and guard geese at Cragganbogle Castle on the Western Isles of Scotland. When Finnley and Hadley’s seventh-grade class is invited to spend a vacation in Spain, these unlikely events are drawn together into an adventure filled with more danger, weird food, snooty popular girls, underground cave cities, and evil bog witches than they could have hoped for.

It is said that one good deed deserves another. The Great Bog Witch of Calanais learns this is also true for bad deeds.

The world has been a suspiciously quiet and peaceful place in the three years since the calamity in Shadow Canyon. There have been no more Stone Rot events. A new generation of international men and women are rising to prominence in the fields of business, industry, and politics. Finnley McDougall and Hadley Kobayashi are enjoying a normal senior year in high school. The future looks bright.

Mairin learns to defeat mean strong enemies with kindness. Some sandstone magic and a smoky amber quartz crystal helps too.

Even a great gome magician can learn who to trust and what secrets to share. This is especially important when Baidu fangs and spores of crumblefern are involved.

Maggie and Eleanor Crabtree love to annoy stuffy grownups with their quick wit and reckless behavior. But when the girls get kidnapped and imprisoned in their own family mansion on the rugged west coast of Scotland, life becomes a lot less fun. This gang of international art thieves will make their lives miserable until their father, a famous art historian, gives the crooks a priceless collection of goblets, brooches, and swords.

Public buildings and monuments are collapsing around the world, and no one knows why! A reclusive multinational corporation claims to have found the answer. Finnley McDougall and his best friend Hadley are growing apart from each other as things at school become weirder and weirder. Tessa of the Golden Star remains stuck in the wrong place and time. Wullie-the-Mahaar-Gome, their scruffy, rude, and bad-tempered protector seems unable to help.