When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

Nixy Bauer is used to her classmates being very, very unhappy to see her. After all, she's a bounty hunter in a virtual reality gaming world. Kids in the MEEP, as they call it, play entirely with their minds, while their bodies languish in a sleeplike state on the couch. Irritated parents, looking to wrench their kids back to reality, hire Nixy to jump into the game and retrieve them. But when the game's billionaire developer loses track of his own...

Until I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive. Together we are more powerful. But it could only last so long before we had to separate to find the others... I went to Spain to find Seven, and found even more, including a tenth memberof the Garde who escaped from Lorien alive. Ella is younger than the rest of us, but just as brave. Now we'e looking for the others - including John. But so are they....