Contains "Sabriel" in which Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead; "Lirael" in which Lirael and Prince Sameth are drawn into a battle to save the Old Kingdom and reveal their true destinies; and "Abhorsen" in which Lirael is abruptly transformed into the Abhorsen-in-Waiting--a future guardian of the border between life and death--and immediately finds the fate of all life in her hands.

Sabriel -- Lirael -- Abhorsen -- Nicholas Sayre and the creature in the case.