In 1970, a group of California hippies migrates to Alaska when the law begins to cramp their style, but soon their new home's harsh environment cramps it even more.

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.

Freydeh, a young Jewish woman from Russia, struggles to make a living in post-Civil War New York City, where she hopes to find the American dream and a better life for herself.

A story within a story in which a historian discovers a manuscript in an old trunk which proves to be the memoirs of Charles O'Brien, an itinerant healer in Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in which he tells of his influence on some of the great writers of the time, and explains how his life changed at the age of forty when he fell in love with, and was rejected by, a beautiful, young Englishwoman.

In 1896 the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah, is almost twelve years old and more mischievous than ever in his practical jokes and schemes against everyone in town.

Captain Alatriste agrees to help a desperate father rescue his daughter from a convent where she is being used as a personal concubine by a powerful priest, but his efforts soon place him in the middle of a religious and political conspiracy that leads to the highest levels of the Inquisition.

Elin Carlson, unable to bear life in Sweden after the deaths of her parents, resolves to take her sisters to live in America, but a series of hardships makes her begin to doubt her decision to immigrate to Chicago.

Knight Templar Will Campbell, has sworn to uphold the peaceful aims of the Anima Temple, but he faces a grave choice after the Temple forges an alliance with their enemy, King Edward of England and now must decide whether to keep his loyalties or break from the brotherhood and fight alongside his countrymen in Scotland.

Copper's peaceful life on Troublesome Creek is endangered by a stepmother determined to turn Copper into a proper lady, a loving father who is haunted by his painful past, and a suitor that promises her a new life far away.

Copper Brown places her trust in God to help her find her purpose in life after she leaves her mountain home following a whirlwind romance and goes to live in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband, a busy medical doctor.