Outspoken Daughtie Winfield finds herself in the middle of dissension and upheaval in nineteenth-century Lowell, Massachusetts over working conditions at the mill and unsanitary living conditions for immigrants, and tensions rise as a former employee threatens the future of the textile industry.

Penniless heiress and thirty-fourth in line for the throne Lady Georgiana is sent to Castle Rannoch, where she is asked to help Scotland Yard protect the Prince of Wales from a hunting companion who may be looking to shoot more than quail.

In 53 B.C., as the armies of Rome face each other in civil war, Julius Caesar struggles to fulfill his destiny as his military genius and appetite for glory are tested by Pompey and his troops and his longing for an ancient world of mysteries and a bewitching woman lead him to an uncertain future.

After a young Dutch girl writes to her new American friend in thanks for the care package sent after World War II, she begins to receive increasingly larger boxes.

Ayla and Jondalar meet the Mamutoi-the Mammoth Hunters--people like Ayla. Ayla finds herself torn between the wildly jealous Jondalar and the master carver Ranec.

The ambitious prior of Kingsbridge, England, dreams of building the greatest Gothic cathedral in the world, and the struggle to construct it leads to a battle between good and evil in twelfth century England.

Mei Wang leaves a position with the ministry of public security , becomes an illegal private investigator, and is hired to find a missing jade seal, which leads her to family secrets as well as details of Communist China's history.

Artemesia, having escaped the hangman's noose and married her true love, finds life ashore a bit boring after her adventures as a pirate queen, and does not hesitate when the government of England, at war with France and Spain, offers her a ship in exchange for her service in harassing the enemy.

The death of their parents in an automobile crash in the summer of 1914 leads Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley and his brother Matthew, an intelligence officer, into a complicated investigation of what became of a mysterious document--allegedly with the power to disgrace England--Mr. Reavley was on his way to deliver to Matthew when he died.