Carmel March's life had been shrouded by secrets from the very beginning. First she is brought up by a couple who found her wandering in their gardens at Commonwood, then a tragedy at Commonwood sweeps her off to Australia where she meets a young man who dreams of making his fortune in the opal mines. Carmel always feels drawn back to the England of her youth, so she returns only to find she had been rushed away from the scene of a murder those...

Henpecked by his domineering wife and manipulated by his hypocritical chaplain, the new bishop, Dr. Proudie, hopes for a quiet life but instead sets off a chain of intrigues and upsets in Victorian Barchester.

When Boowie reads the diary that his grandmother sends him, he learns of her childhood in World War II England when American and British soldiers practiced for D-Day's invasion in the area of her home, and about her beloved cat, Adolphus Tip, and the cat's namesake.

Alice Liddell Hargreaves nears her eighty-first birthday regrets that her life has been defined by the adventures she had seventy years ago after falling down the rabbit hole and wonders how she can leave a more profound legacy for her children and grandchildren.

While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to seek Gilgamesh.

When the Sellers family moves from London to Sheffield in 1974, they find that the Glover family across the street is in a state of upheaval, and as the connection between the families deepens during the beginnings of the Thatcher era, old crises return decades later with a dramatic impact on everybody.

Two neighbors, Meri, a recently married thirty seven year old, and Delia, the wife of an adulterous senator, find their lives and marriages are not as different as they once thought.