"Travel to Ancient Greece with Jack and Annie as they meet Alexander the Great and help tame his wild stallion"--

In 1864, two boys, one a slave running toward freedom and one hoping to collect the reward for capturing him, make their way through Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp, relying on knowledge the white boy's father, disabled by the war, had passed on to him in happier times.

As commander of the River Police, Monk is accustomed to violent death, but the mutilated female body found on Limehouse Pier one chilly December morning moves him with horror and pity. The victim's name is Zenia Gadney. Her waterfront neighbors can tell him little -- only that the same unknown gentleman had visited her once a month for many years. She must be a prostitute, but -- described as quiet and kempt -- she doesn't appear to be a fallen woman....

International singing star Nuala Anne McGrail and her spear-carrying husband, Dermot Coyne, head to a major music festival in Milan, where they meet Seamus Costelloe and his family, and when Nuala sees the sign of death on Seamus, she tries to change his future and prevent his death.

In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.