Twelve-year-old Maggie's stutter causes her much heartache and only her menagerie of pets, whom she can speak with fluidly, provide her comfort, but when she finds Rumpus, an abandoned snow leopard in a forest in Cornwall, their chance encounter will change their lives forer.

Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.

In the mountains of Nepal, Sabu the snow leopard and her young cub, Ka, are beginning a long and painful journey to find food. Dangers await across the snowy wastes, but the two leopards cannot rest until they reach food and safety in the next valley.

Little Mist, a young snow leopard, is filled with wonder when his mother introduces him to the world for the first time.