Ukrainian immigrant Theo Mykolayenko, having been imprisoned in a Canadian jail for nearly two years for not paying a small debt, returns to his family with the hope and determination to rebuild their life, but is confronted with violence and tragedy when his scheming brother-in-law reappears in his sister's life.

Scotland Yard's Inspector Ian Rutledge takes on the most baffling case of his career when a man from his past with connections to a series of killings begins to haunt Ian's mind and question his sanity.

Expatriate American Ethan Gage wins an ancient and mysterious medallion in a card game that may hold the secrets of the pyramids, but must flee for his life when he is framed for a murder and forced to accompany Napoleon Bonaparte on his quest to conquer Egypt.

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

After the deaths of her husband and children to illness, Summer Steadman has no desire to continue on to where she and her husband had planned to settle, so she takes a job in a small Mennonite community in order to be close to the graves of her family.

In 1930s London, Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie--a poor, extended relative of the royal family--becomes involved in a murder when a man who is trying to takes her father's estate is found dead in her bathtub.

Plodding police inspector Carus Groves teams up with retired professor Thomas McKnight and his gravedigger assistant to investigate when a series of grisly murders strikes Edinburgh in the 1880s, shortly after the return of Evelyn Todd, a young woman who had been expelled from the Fountainbridge Institute for Destitute Girls years earlier for weaving fantastic stories about a cheerful lamplighter.

Zarité, who is known as Tété, born to an African mother she has never known and a white sailor, survives a brutal childhood and grows up to find comfort in the music and culture of her fellow slaves, and when Toulouse Valmorain purchases young Tété for his bride, both of their lives become intertwined in surprising ways, particularly when they both end up in New Orleans.

When a deadly illness begins to afflict the clans, twelve-year-old Torak, with help from Renn and Wolf, embarks on a journey to find a cure.

Mollie Peer and the other members of the Mosepath League work together to save a young boy from the dark world of the nightrunners.