Margot Harrington, an expert at book conservancy, discovers a volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano accompanying sixteen steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino in a convent library. When published over four centuries earlier, the Vatican had insisted all copies be destroyed. This one--now unique--volume has survived.

Set in the Spanish colonial era, a doomed love affair takes place between a young girl who is thought to be possessed and the priest who is sent to oversee her exorcism.

As a struggle for control of Noble House, the most powerful English trading company in the Orient, takes place in 1862, Lord Toranaga Yoshi is trying to usher Japan into the modern age.

On the Isle of Avalon the Druidic priestess Eilan must guard the ancient rites against the approach of the Roman Empire.

Working in the mines of the Scottish highlands, Mack hungers for freedom, when he is arrested for rioting. Sent to the American colonies as a convict, he finds an unlikely ally in Lizzie, a willful young aristocratic woman who yearns to get away from her own kind of hell.