Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland, to the Majestic Hotel and the fiancee he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. So hypnotic are the faded charms of the Majestic, that the Major passes the summer there, almost unaware of the gathering storm in the Ireland of 1919.

Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike somewhere else. His daughter keeps entangling herself with the most unsuitable beaus, while her intended match, the son of Blackett's partner, is an idealistic sympathizer with the League of Nations and a vegetarian....

In 1811, frontiersmen Clay and Jeff Holt are enlisted by President Thomas Jefferson to investigate the mysterious death of a famous colleague, Merriwether Lewis, leading them from the manors of Virginia to the steamboats of the Mississippi, and revealinga dark conspiracy.

Trulliç finds his home in the desert, amid the great stones he raises from the very sands to build the city and the underground rivers he bends to his will. He can't raise people, though. He's all alone. Well, except for the dog, Riyune. How can Trulliç encourage others to come and live with him, when he knows the emperor and his guards are also on their way? When he can't promise peace? Trulliç makes mistakes but he must overcome his past and...

Aidan, their unintended traveling companion, is losing blood fast. The destruction of two possible escape vehicles and the forced evacuation of the third leaves them little choice. But a golf cart in the dense wilderness isn't the best getaway vehicle. An introduction to Earth's Fourth Empire really wasn't on Michael or Randolph's calendar.

No one trusts a landless magician, but Trullic cannot find his true home, where his own magical powers work best. He knows it exists somewhere out in the desert. But how can he find it, when the land itself threatens to swallow him whole every times he steps across the boundary? Nadeem comes to her power early, a potent illusionist. Her aunts recognize her power, and recruit her for a secret cadre of assassins. Despite her training, Nadeem still...

A year has passed since Jason emerged triumphant from the Bassanium and brought down the abominable law 13. Both Jason and Benedetta are now well respected in Empire city and aim to bring about great change to the entire continent with the support of Romulus Brown who now sees his son as an equal, ready to assume command. However, dark forces are working in the shadows against them and are about to challenge everything they have achieved.

In "Humiliation," Michael, crown prince of the Space Empire, finds that he is not alone in his quest to build an advanced deep-space battle-ready vessel. Mysterious ships bearing scarlet crosses pursue his convoy and expose conspiracies against the Space Empire from within and without. Michael's adoptive brother Randolph follows him to exile on Earth and a summer of biblical teaching at Jonathan Edwards' camp meetings. Forbidden romance leads to...