”That bird should be destroyed!” Andreas stared at Ethelbert in shock. Blood from an angry-looking gash on the young lord’s cheek dripped onto his embroidered tunic. Andreas clutched the handles of the basket containing the young peregrine. Perhaps this was a dream… Andreas, an apprentice falconer at Castle Kragenberg, cannot bear the thought of killing […]

Emily Rose roams through a country ravaged by war, a damaged land where the very grass blades drink the blood of brothers, cousins, and friends. Protected only by her wits and Nathaniel Whiteeagle, a slave with Cherokee blood, Emily swears she will find her fiancé and buy his freedom. Facing danger at each turn, every […]

Robert Hart (1835 – 1911) was the ‘Godfather of China’s modernism’ and the only foreigner the emperor of China trusted. In fact, Hart played a crucial role in ending the bloodiest rebellion in history, the Taiping Rebellion, and he owes this success largely to Ayaou, his live-in dictionary and encyclopedia, his Chinese concubine. About a […]

Thousands of exhibits. Millions of visitors. One supernatural killer. Neva’s goals at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago are simple. Enjoy the spectacle, perhaps the greatest the United States has ever put on (the world’s fair to end all world’s fairs!). Perform in the exposition’s Algerian Theatre to the best of her abilities. And […]

In antebellum Charleston, a Catholic priest grapples with doubt, his family’s secret African ancestry, and his love for a slave owner’s wife. Joseph Lazare and his two sisters grow up believing their black hair and olive skin come from a Spanish grandmother, until the summer they learn she was an African slave. While his sisters […]

1989: Richard, an expatriate American, is working a profitable yet “pointless” job selling software for a small U.S. firm in West Berlin. Katarina Weber is a married mother whose hedonistic escapades help distract him from the emptiness of his existence. When Richard ventures beyond the No Man’s Land into East Berlin to fulfill a personal […]