The seventh son of the seventh son, aptly named Septimus Heap, is stolen the night he is born by a midwife who pronounces him dead. That same night, the baby's father, Silas Heap, comes across a bundle in the snow containing a new bor...

The first two books--My Haunted House, in which Araminta's ghost-ridden house goes up for sale, and The Sword in the Grotto, in which Araminta tries to retrieve a rusty sword as a birthday present for Sir Horace--in the Araminta Spook...