A wedding at Mistlethwaite brings a new beginning for more than one person.

A human Merlin stumbles across a group of hunters threatening a golden wolf. Instinctively Merlin tries to help the wolf, managing to stall the attackers long enough for the rest of the pack to come to the rescue. But his good deed will cost him dearly, as one of the thugs injects werewolf venom into his body. What will Merlin wake up as and what will his life be now?

More than anything, Mary Lennox fears becoming a selfish, vain, empty-headed creature like her mother. To prevent this she runs away from her schooling in London to join the war effort. Her thoughts linger on her boys, Colin at school and Dickon called up to war himself and her secret garden. Life brings painful lessons and sometimes it brings exactly what we want most.