The hero is Richard-the-Seeker, a woodsman with a magic sword. One day in his forest he rescues a woman pursued by assassins. She turns out to be Kahlan Amnell from the neighboring kingdom of Midlands who is seeking a wizard named Zedd to help her destroy the tyrant ruling her kingdom. Richard takes her to him and the novel is the story of their joint adventure. A first novel.

During a summer vacation at the beach, thirteen-year-old wizard Nita and her friend Kit assist the whale-wizard S'reee in combating an evil power.

When Princess Jenna is pursued by a dark wizard, it is the apprentice, Septimus Heap, who must save her while enduring such terrors as a night in the Forest with hungry wolverines and carnivorous trees.

A dying wizard attempts to pass his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son who is in the process of being born, not realizing until it is too late that the newborn is a girl.

Richard Cypher, Seeker of Truth, has succeeded in throwing the vile Darken Rahl into the underworld, but the battle is not over yet as Rahl continues to wield his sinister power through a rip in the veil to the underworld, threatening to unleash the ultimate evil upon the world above.

Septimus must elude the plans of Merrin Meredith and Tertius Fume in order to find the House of Foryx, a place where all Time meets, and secure the release of Nicko and Snorri.

Raised on Eld mountain with only her father's magical menagerie for company, a young wizard is drawn irrevocably into the human world with all its sorrows and delights when a baby comes into her care.

When her younger sister uses the family computer with its special wizard software to travel to worlds light years away, Nita uses her wizardry to try to find her.

Nita, a teenage wizard, is sent off to Ireland to spend a month with her eccentric aunt, but her parents' plan to separate her from magic go awry when Nita encounters a host of Irish wizards engaged in a battle to save the country from ghosts of the past.

Teenage wizard Nita travels to other universes to find a cure for her mother who has brain cancer.