1792, France. With their lives and their nation in turmoil, Gilles and Marie-Caroline wonder if a révolutionnaire and a royaliste can really be together or if they must live in a world that forces people to choose sides.
Private eye and WWII veteran Aloysius Archer heads to Los Angeles, the city where dreams are made and shattered, and is ensnared in a lethal case involving Hollywood and mob-ridden Las Vegas.
When Sarah Byrne's mother dies in Chicago, her estranged grandmother, Miriam, attends the funeral and reveals that she escaped the holocaust, but had to leave a son behind in Latvia, and she wants Sarah to find him.
Willy May, former beauty queen, chooses exclusive Mustique to build her post-divorce life, and is soon in its inner circle. But beneath its decadence, the island's dark side shifts her relationship with her daughters.
Kaikeyi discovers a magic that is hers alone in the texts she once read with her mother. But as the demons of her childhood stories threaten the cosmic order, Kaikeyi must decide if resistance is worth the destruction it will wreak.
When her parents are imprisoned, Honey picks up her mother's packhorse library route to deliver books in remote Appalachia. But the route can be treacherous, and some folks aren't keen to let a woman pave her own way.
Raised in the splendor of Carlyle Castle, Philippa Kirkpatrick is not eager to wed and leave the only home she's ever known. She takes a liking to the castles new scandalously bold steward, William Montclair.
Fleeing the New England coast after foiling a British man-of-war's attempt to seize his cargo, merchant sea captain Isaac Biddlecomb finds himself in the middle of a brewing rebellion and at the mercy of a sadistic captain. On a brig bound for Jamaica and now serving as a lowly mate, Biddlecomb find that fate tests his mettle as he is captured by the enemy and faces a life of servitude under the deranged captain and sadistic crew of the HMS Icarus.
When the body of one of her students is discovered, Dr. Margaret Murray is determined to find out how and why the girl died. When the body of a second young woman is discovered, the case takes a disturbing new twist.
Antonio Scurati tells the story of fascism from within the mind of its founder, the man known to his followers as Il Duce. Steeped in historical detail and interspersed with period documents and sources, this novel explores the seductive power of nationalism and idolatry, revealing how authoritarianism took hold and a nation bent to the will of one ruthless strongman.
