Familiar characters abound in Enchanted Chest, the fourth book in the Willoughby Chronicles series, but it is the Old Willoughby Chest -- and the mystical surprises it holds -- that takes center stage for much of this tale. After hundreds of years being shipped or taken from one country to another by a variety of owners since William Willoughby was compelled to build it in 1625, the Old Willoughby Chest had finally come to rest in the shadowy, ghostly basement of a Hartford, Connecticut, museum, where it had little chance of seeing the light of day ever again. Until Weston, Maddy, Mary Jean and Bridget -- thanks to the digging done by Catherine from a Boston museum -- finally connected with the Old Willoughby Chest in ways that could only be described as transcendental. Once it became unshackled by its lonely and dark existence, the Old Willoughby Chest takes its new and rightful owners on journeys through the past and future. And then, it connects with Weston and Maddy's daughter is ways that will elicit gasps from the reader. In the Enchanted Chest, it is stated that, "If the Old Willoughby Chest could talk ... ." Well, dear reader, get ready, because, in some ways, it can.