American graduate student Eloise Kelly, continuing her research on Napoleonic-era espionage, while fighting her attraction to Colin Selwick, the descendant of her spy subjects, uncovers the story of Mary Alsworthy, a raven-haired beauty who agrees to help Lord Vaughn infiltrate the ranks of the French spy, the Black Tulip, and finds she has captured not only the spy's attentions, but also that of her boss, Lord Vaughn.

Former diplomat and detective Erast Fandorin, hunting a spy who is sabotaging Russia's fight against the Ottoman Empire in 1877, finds his attention divided when he becomes involved with Varya Suvorova, a young woman determined to rescue her fiance who has been accused of treason.

Running Fawn must accept the changes forced upon her people by the coming of the white man, but life at the Mission Boarding School in Calgary, where she has been sent with the chief's son Silver Fox, is very strange and lonely, and she is further confused by Silver Fox's new belief in God and his marked interest in her.

Sebastian, the notorious Earl of Angelstone, is intrigued when he receives an entirely improper visit from country bred Prudence Merryweather, who has put her reputation on the line in an attempt to convince him not to duel her with her hot headed brother, and as their acquaintance grows, he finds himself torn between wanting to possess the innocently bold young woman, and needing to protect her.

In old Siam, young elephant trainer Run-Run and his old charge, Walking Mountain, must deal with the curse of a sacred white elephant.

A fictional account of different immigrant families in America who all have owned a single handmade accordian. Follows their quests for a fulfilled life in a racist American culture from Iowa to Texas and from Maine to Louisiana.

Escaping from a hotel fire, Nicholas Van Tassel glimpses a woman standing beneath a streetlight and is so overwhelmed with the sight that he focuses on the single goal of marrying her, a decision that leads to both happiness and tragedy.

Lawman Tom Shanaghy, fleeing enemies in New York, takes on the job of marshal in a small Kansas town and soon finds himself hoping his big city tactics are going to work against hardened cattle ranchers with a score to settle.

In the 1890s, struggling to support himself and his invalid father among the gangs on New York's Lower East Side, thirteen-year-old Sam Glodsky joins mobster Monk Eastman and his own archenemy, Izzy Fink, in a plot to rescue Eastman's prize racing pigeon from a quarantined steamship.

Twenty-year-old Mary Sutter, a midwife who dreams of becoming a surgeon, leaves her home in Albany, New York, and travels to Washington, D.C., where she is taken on as an assistant to chief surgeon William Stipp at a Union hospital, and earns his admiration and love.