British diplomats Lady Emily and Colin Hargreaves, on their honeymoon in Turkey, interrupt their exotic vacation to investigate when a harem girl is found murdered at Topkapi Palace, and the victim is found to be the daughter of an English embassy worker.

Penelope Deveraux is sent to India to let the scandal surrounding her hasty marriage die down and is plunged into a strange world of intrigue and danger where the only person Penelope can trust is not her husband, but the dashing Alex Reid.

When Theo Noble and his wife, Polly, rent an Italian villa for their vacation, their idyllic dream of a summer spent relaxing with friends and family is destroyed by meddling parents, an obnoxious journalist, and their own unexplored feelings.

A satirical look at Victorian manners recounting the experiences of two finishing school graduates, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.

Charles Babbage sponsors a private astronomical expedition that will set out from Washington City and travel by wagon train beyond the last known outposts of civilization, but what the members of the expedition do not know is that Babbage has an ulterior motive for the trip.

Curator Safia al-Maaz and her friend and museum benefactor Lady Kara Kensington, team up with archaeologist Omaha Dunn and government operative Painter Crowe on a perilous expedition to the Arabian desert in search of the lost city of Ubar and the source of the antimatter used to destroy the antiquities branch of a London museum.

Grandmama Ellison--left with distant relatives when her daughter and son-in-law go to Paris for Christmas--decides to be disagreeable until her interest is captured when uninvited guest Maude Barrington is found dead in bed and she becomes caught up in investigating her mysterious demise.

Jemima Jones, nearly one hundred pounds overweight and in love with a man she believes she can never have, meets a California hunk on the Internet, introducing herself as JJ, a slim, beautiful, glamour girl; but when her online love demands to meet her in person, Jemima knows it is time to take action.

After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.

Mary Russell is settling in for a much-needed rest with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, but when Holmes' gravely ill brother brings news of a mystery, the couple set off to solve another mystery that is complicated by the government, family ties, and a decades-old secret.