Audrey Fuerle: 3 books

There's a legend of how the world got its scar: six demons came to a cross ways and destroyed each other. Nott knows the truth to this legend, because he was one of those six. For thousands of years his ghost has been protecting the living from his fellow demons and hounding them in death....

With the body of a teddy bear and the voice of a grizzly, Bear Schwartzsfend cuts an unlikely figure for any world's greatest genius. But it is he who invents the multinet, a network connecting the various internets of all worlds. Remote alien races can now converse, bringing information, trade, culture--and crime.

From what Hazel has read there's a world of adventure out there just waiting for unwilling heroes to stumble into it. But it seems that no matter how much she prepares she's always told that adventure is not for little girls. Now that she's growing up, she's beginning to wonder if it's there for anyone....