Books with title The Changeling

After three years of peace and quiet, Callan thought he was done with fairies for good. But when a girl from his hometown turns out to be just as weakened by iron as the Seelie King was, Callan and Brianna find themselves in the middle of a changeling custody battle — because family ties are even more messy and complicated when the fae are involved.

With three acclaimed novels–Powers That Be, Power Lines, and Power Play–bestselling authors Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough launched a vibrant new science-fiction saga that told the story of a sentient planet, Petaybee, and the humans who fought to protect it from the rapacious designs of an all-powerful interstellar corporation determined to exploit the icy world’s natural resources. Led by Yana Maddock and Sean Shongili, Petaybee’s protectors prevailed. But now Petaybee is changing in mysterious, unprecedented ways, and the return of off-world scientists threatens the amazing planet and its equally amazing inhabitants with new dangers.CHANGELINGSThey are Ronan Born for Water Shongili and Murel Monster Slayer Shongili. Twin brother and sister. Children of Yana and Sean. Children of Petaybee. As such, theirs is a destiny deeply intertwined with the sentient planet that is their home. For Ronan and Murel are more than human. Like their father, each can transform into a seal and converse telepathically with the planet’s creatures–such as the friendly otter whose life they save one day from a pack of ravenous wolves.But the twins’ bravery has unforeseen results when a visiting scientist witnesses their startling metamorphosis and becomes obsessed with their capture. To protect their children, Sean and Yana send them to stay with a powerful family friend on an orbiting space station. But no one realizes that Ronan and Murel hunger to discover the origins of their shape-shifting talent–and that their search for knowledge will place them squarely in the path of peril.Meanwhile, Petaybee is changing–and much faster than an ordinary planet’s natural evolution. It appears that portions of the sea are heating up and a landmass is suddenly rising from the depths. To investigate the startling occurrence, Sean heads out to the open water in his seal form. But the newly unstable region holds untold mysteries–and the potential for disaster.

Shauna, eldest of five adopted children, is kidnapped by fairies and a changeling is put in her place. The changeling and her magic are a huge success with the family. Unfortunately, the dimwit fairies in charge of the changeover inadvertently kidnap five-year-old Sierra as well, and in the first of many adventures, the changeling and company set out for Fairyland to rescue Sierra. Their search uncovers a plot hatched by the outlawed elves on Rombauld’s Moor to annihilate all of Fairyland. Evil is afoot with the witch, Ratstails, and her legion of man-eating crows! The world’s only two-headed dragon, Alawn Tinah, is being cloned from ancient dragons’ bones, making the adventure even more perilous. The Changling will thrill children of all ages everywhere.

Why are people in Josephine’s Arizona town dying of spontaneous combustion? Jo doesn’t know, but she’s worried she’s next. Her own temperature has been rising lately—really rising. Some nights running for miles is all she can do to extinguish the flame she feels blazing within her—and how does she not break a sweat? Jo feels like a major freak, but when death hits close to home, she realizes she’s less alone than she thinks. Before anyone else gets hurt, it’s up to Jo to uncover the source of a transformation that has made her powerful, strong…and dangerous. The pulse-quickening first book in a series by debut author Daphne Bristow will leave fans of Ally Condie, Scott Westerfield, and the X-Men wanting more.

Jay’s life is a lie. She grew up in Eldoro, the only city that survived the plague that swept across the world, killing everyone. She and everyone in the city lost their memory seven years ago. But Jay and two companions are sent on a quest to search for other survivors. They find survivors all right, but it’s more than they expected. They are plunged into a world where people turn into animals, wolves are huge, and a rebellion is waiting for the right time to strike at Eldoro. With the help of a falcon boy, a giant wolf, and few friends, can Jay fix everything?

When seventeen-year-old orphan Deirdre moves to Neo-London, a city created after an attack by Unseelie faeries, she is caught in the tension between the city faeries and the Iron Guard, a faction of the military. After having her fortune told, Deirdre develops uncontrollable magical abilities—making her the target of Alan Callaghan, an extreme anti-faery general. His sons, Iain and James, cross paths with Deirdre and are pushed towards the opposite sides of the conflict between humans and Fae. Iain is a rookie soldier in the Iron Guard trying to atone for past mistakes and keep his family together. James is a fourteen-year-old aspiring scholar fascinated by faeries and eager to leave his life in the city behind. As Alan conspires to control the city, Deirdre and James plot to leave, seeking answers about her magic and James’s disappeared mother. However, when Deirdre is framed for a treasonous crime, their quest for answers becomes a desperate quest for freedom.The Changeling’s Fortune is the first installment in the six-book YA Urban Fantasy series, Winter's Blight.

In 1169, Norman mercenaries are landing in Ireland. But Munster girl Ailie Ua Caoimh has a more immediate problem: getting the land-rent for her family's farm. When she pulls one of the Fair Ones out of a fish, he seems the perfect solution, but as he foretold, earth magic draws to her. Soon Ailie has to accept help from a changeling without a name. He leads her straight into the wrath of the king of the Fair Ones. Seeking a way to save herself, Ailie enters service in the Thomond court, where she finds that kings are not necessarily to be trusted. Soon she is embroiled with the invaders at a time when the fate of her land teeters between freedom and foreign domination.