Relates Horatio's adventures as a Lieutenant until his promotion to Commander during the early years of the Napoleonic Wars.

Jack and Annie travel back to Victorian London when Merlin asks them to use their magic to inspire Charles Dickens to write "A Christmas Carol."

Wild and beautiful Charlotte challenges the social mores of Victorian London by marrying a soldier bound for Kabul and losing her heart to another, and sets a pattern for her granddaughter Alexandra and later her great-granddaughter Cara to follow as they struggle to find their own places in the world.

Nathaniel Martell and Maria Dagshaw have six children though they aren't married. The family struggles for acceptance in nineteenth cnetury England.

In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan boy lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.

Jeremy Malory, socially prominent but streetwise, meets his match in Danny, a beautiful orphan with no memory of her past, who lives dressed as a boy with a group of London pickpockets. After catching her trying to rob him in a tavern, he promises to release her only after she breaks into the country home of a dastardly nobleman who cheated Jeremy's friend out of precious family heirlooms.