Liddell Hart, no warrior, dwelt all his life on war. He obtained its waste,

The Faradays travel to 1600s Prague, where Dawk and Hype find themselves in an alchemic mystery.

An Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasures found within.

Living in the twenty-fifth century, young Dawkins and Hypatia Faraday take time travel and technology for granted but in Prague in 1648, they are startled to find a rogue alchemist who is using advanced technology to change mercury into gold.

By virtue of one new life a kingdom is saved by a princess's affliction. Through pain the royal family finds themselves changing in ways that would boggle the mind, and give new insight to the radicals of their kingdom. Her name is Princess Crystal Christallum.

When their parents, two temporal researchers who travel through time to document history, are transferred to 16th-century Prague, Dawk and Hype hardly expect to find themselves in the middle of an alchemical mystery. In fact, the new, boring job is meant to be a punishment for Dawk and Hype's bad behavior at their last temporal post. The two teenagers are from the 25th century--how could medieval Prague compare? But when they meet a man who claims he can turn metal into gold, Dawk and Hype find out that Prague holds deeper secrets.