Artemesia finally escapes the prim and proper world of finishing schools and sets out to win her mother's title as pirate queen of the seas until she meets her match against Goldie Girl, the treacherous captain of the pirate ship "Enemy."

Brother Cadfael in captured by Danish mercenaries when his caught up in a disagreement between two Welsh princes in the summer of 1144.

A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King.

Susan Rose, a Victorian woman with a big heart and equally large bosom, secures a job as a professional wet nurse and makes it her business to learn all the secrets and scandals of the high-class people for whom she works, and when her own child is threatened, she does not hesitate to use what she knows to rescue her baby.

Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, also referred to as Breaca, leads in her pursuit of the Roman invaders in first-century Celtic England while Ban, Breaca's half brother, has thrown his loyalty to the service of Rome against her.