A young slave's journey to freedom begins when a plantation owner's granddaughter teaches him how to read. Based on the childhood of Alec Turner (1845-1923) who escaped from slavery by joining the Union Army during the Civil War and later became a landowner in Vermont.

A young girl ignores her parents' wishes and persuades her great-grandmother to relate the story of her escape from czarist Russia.

Sigmund Freud and his rival Carl Jung arrive in New York in 1909 and find themselves pulled into the murder of a young woman and help Dr. Stratham unlock the mind of the killer's second intended victim who escaped but cannot identify her attacker.

Lady Ivy Sinclair, in a hurry to marry before her father cuts off her funds, plans on hooking the boring but respectable Lord Tinsdale, but when his attentions are diverted, she hires a handsome man to impersonate a marquess in order to make Tinsdale jealous, not realizing the blue-eyed rake is in fact the Marquess of Counterton.

After returning from captivity and being traded to Norman invaders, Lara and her horse escape and find refuge with nuns whom she teaches to breed horses.

Wealthy businessman Ralph Truitt advertises for a reliable wife to make a home for him on his estate in rural Wisconsin in the early twentieth century and although he knows immediately that Catherine Land is not the woman she presented herself to be, he decides to marry her anyway in what becomes a risky arrangement for them both.

Tally and her friends at Dalderton Boarding School form a dance troupe and travel to Bergania, where she befriends Karil, the crown prince, and helps him flee the Nazis after his father is assassinated.

During World War II an American Major is placed in charge of the Italian village of Adano.

In the early twentieth century, young orphan Maud Flynn hopes to finally be loved when she is adopted by the elderly Hawthorne sisters, but she is instead roped into the family's crooked séance business.

Presents a collection of five short stories featuring "American Girl" Addy Walker, who is an African-American girl growing up in Philadelphia right after the Civil War.