Inkheart: Twelve-year-old Meggie's life changes forever on the night a stranger arrives on hers and her father Mo's doorstep. Dustfinger, evidently an old acquaintance of Meggie's father, comes bearing bad news: an evil man named Capricorn is searching for Mo and a very special book in his possession--Inkheart. In an attempt to throw off his searchers, Mo and Meggie flee to Meggie's great-aunt's house with Dustfinger. But not even Elinor's huge house and her thousands of books can hide them for long. In the dead of night, they are betrayed and Mo is taken away by Capricorn's men. Meggie, Elinor and Dustfinger pursue them to Capricorn's village in the mountains, where Meggie and her aunt learn the startling truth: Mo has the ability to read things and people from the pages of books. Years ago when Meggie was very young, Mo read aloud from Inkheart and Capricorn, Basta and Dustfinger the fire-eater fell out of its pages, while Meggie's mother disappeared inside the story. Now, Meggie is discovering that she shares her father's wonderful and terrible gift, and Capricorn wants her to read him an old and evil friend from the pages of his story: the Shadow. It is only through Meggie's voice and the help of Fenoglio, Inkheart's author, that they can escape Inkheart's darkness.

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Inkspell: It has been nearly a year since Dustfinger disappeared with Farid, a boy Mo read from 1001 Arabian Nights, and the last copy of Inkheart. When he finally finds a man who can read him back into his story, Basta and Capricorn's mother, Mortola, steal Inkheart keep Farid from following Dustfinger into the Inkworld. Farid finds and warns Meggie and her parents of Basta's threats against them, before presenting Meggie with the words Orpheus used to read Dustfinger back, and begging her to read him into the story. Meggie agrees, on one condition: that she should come, too. She plans to experience the world she has heard so much about before hunting down Fenoglio since he disappeared into the book, and having him write the words to get her home. All seems to be going perfectly until Orpheus shows up on Elinor's doorstep and sends Mortola and Basta back into Inkheart with Mo and Resa. The Inkworld is a beautiful place, but it is also cruel, and Fenoglio has been causing trouble with his written words. Hailed as a poet and scribe in the city of Ombra, he writes songs about a robber called the Bluejay--a Robin-Hood figure who fights with the strolling players against the rule of the tyrannical Adderhead. The catch? Never having imaged that Meggie and her family should end up in the Inkworld, Fenoglio used Mo as the Bluejay's model. Meggie pursues her parents with the help of Farid and Dustfinger as they are all caught up in the story's intricate and evolving web.

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Inkdeath: Dustfinger is dead, having sacrificed himself for Farid, but the boy will not rest until he is brought back to life. Since bringing Orpheus into the story, Farid has been working for the man to have him write the words that will bring Dustfinger back. But Orphesus has a terribly sinister plot. Instead of simply bringing Dustfinger back, he writes the words to trade the Bluejay's life for the fire-eater's. But Death has other plans. He will let Mo live on, if only he destroys the book he bound for the Adderhead: the book that keeps the cruel ruler immortal. If Mo does not succeed, Death will not only take his life, but Meggie's, too, since she helped him bind the book. Returning to life with Dustfinger, Mo takes on the role of the Bluejay and sets about ending the Adderhead's life once and for all.