From outwitting a German spy before WWI to feigning death to catch a murderer, Sherlock Holmes proves that even retirement can't dull his intellect in this collection of his most clever cases.
In Dark Ages Britain, the warlord Arthur, burdened by a doomed love and a broken kingdom, fights Saxons and internal treachery, all while dealing with Merlin's magic.
Elizabeth of York, caught between her marriage to the conquering Tudor king and the lost York prince who threatens his rule, navigates a dangerous court where love, loyalty, and the English crown are at stake.
A modern road trip uncovers a forbidden 1930s love story between a white debutante and a Black aspiring doctor, showing how the past can guide an unlikely friendship.
In the pioneer West, a young, pregnant widow, alone and without resources, marries a frontiersman to care for his motherless daughter, finding healing and love.
In an alternate 1964 where Nazi Germany won WWII, a disillusioned Berlin detective uncovers a terrifying conspiracy linked to high-ranking officials while investigating a mysterious death, threatening to expose the Third Reich's darkest secrets just as President Kennedy prepares for a historic visit.
In Edwardian London, a demon-hunting heiress secretly loves her best friend while navigating a glittering supernatural society and battling an unstoppable demonic plague. This forces them and their companions to confront their intertwined dark legacies and the brutal cost of heroism.
After fleeing the Jim Crow South, a resilient mother raises eleven children during the Great Migration, their lives showing her courage and a nation's changes.
An impressionable Midwestern girl's journey into the glittering, amoral abyss of turn-of-the-century Chicago exposes the raw materialism and spiritual innocence at the heart of the American dream.
Haunted by war, a young American leaves his privileged life and engagement for a spiritual quest, leaving behind love, betrayal, and social disapproval, all observed by a cynical author.
A violin prodigy is pulled across centuries by a stranger, forcing her on a dangerous, time-traveling quest with a reluctant sailor to find a hidden legacy and escape a powerful family determined to reclaim a stolen, invaluable artifact.
In the steamy, colonial streets of 1920s Saigon, a penniless French girl's forbidden affair with a wealthy Chinese man ignites a passionate, destructive awakening that will haunt her for a lifetime.
A thrilling, centuries-spanning quest for a Montglane chess set plunges a modern computer expert into a dangerous web of ancient secrets, powerful forces, and a destiny intertwined with two 18th-century convent girls.
In a secluded Kentucky home for unwed mothers, a mysterious woman's past as a married runaway threatens to unravel her carefully constructed new life and the bond with the daughter she initially intended to abandon.
Seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood faces Shakespeare, angry rats, and yellow tights while navigating Vietnam and cream puff-demanding bullies, finding courage during his dreaded Wednesday afternoons with Mrs. Baker.
An orphaned boy in 12th-century Korea dreams of making celadon pottery. He works hard and travels far to prove his skill, even when only a single pot fragment remains.
In the English village of Black Swan Green, thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor experiences a year of Cold War worries, first loves, and his parents' crumbling marriage, all while secretly writing poetry about life and change.
To save his kingdom from war and an assassin, the new King Jaron leaves his throne and starts a dangerous journey where he must choose between sacrifice and desertion.
In the opulent yet constrained 1920s, a socialite's reckless affair unravels, forcing her from the ballrooms of Hong Kong to the front lines of a cholera epidemic, where she confronts her past and discovers the meaning of love and redemption amidst the dying.
In a society where women are veiled and silenced, two Afghan women a century apart live as boys to gain forbidden freedoms, only to face their true identities when womanhood arrives.
A respected Chicago philanthropist is publicly unmasked as a Nazi SS officer by a Holocaust survivor, forcing a young attorney to unravel a sixty-year-old betrayal that began in war-torn Poland.
In the lavish but dangerous world of 1860s England, a schoolboy's drowning starts a thirty-year story of forbidden loves, ambition, and a family's secrets that threaten to destroy a nation.
