Books with author Karen-McCombie

When her grandma goes into a retirement home, Scarlet must sort through her belongings in the cramped flat above a shop in London. Here Scarlet comes across a real treasure: a novel that Gran wrote, about the life of a girl just like Scarlet, who lived in the flat and worked in a cake shop downstairs. But as Scarlet reads about Ruby's life in Victorian London, she realises this is not a piece of fiction - Ruby was real - facing real danger - and a mystery that unravels to the present day.

Little Bird has landed in America, far from her home in Scotland and far from the danger that stalked her family.But the new world holds new perils, and soon she's on the run again.From the teeming streets of New York to the prairies of the west, Little Bird holds tight to secrets and dreams of freedom.Then, on her journey, she comes face-to-face with an unwelcome ghost from the past...