Illustrated by Jeff Stokely
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This book is a  reimagining is the story of the Pied Piper. In the village of Hameln, a young woman named Maggie lives and dreams of falling in love. She has gone deaf due to a tragedy of childhood cruelty, and she continues to live with judgment from the villagers. The village of Hameln is beset with rats, bringing fever and ruining crops and stores of food. In comes a mysterious stranger who claims he can rid the village of all the rats. He negotiates his fees, including all-expenses-paid while he stays in the village, and begins his recon. This includes getting to know the lovely Maggie, who cannot fall under his spell naturally. Nevertheless, the two begin to admire each other, but double-crossing and deep-seeded bitterness threaten everything Maggie knows about the man of her dreams.

Illustrated by Dom Reardon and Matthew Dow Smith

Rebellious Teen Nissy (nickname for Nicnevin) has her life in London uprooted by her mother after being expelled from her school for drugs.  Mom takes Nissy and her younger brother to a village in the North of England to detox from fast-paced city life.  The family is supposed to be cleaning up grandma's house, left derelict for many years, but Nissy and her brother have other plans, always absconding and leaving mom to do all the heavy lifting.  There, Nissy meets an interesting older man investigating the mysterious past of the village, including witches and druids.  Nissy reads some of the family history from her grandma’s diary, and finds out there is more to them than she first thought.