During the course of the nineteenth century, a small group of women rose from impoverished obscurity to positions of great power, independence, and wealth. In doing so they took control of their lives -- and those of other people -- and made the worl...
Constantinople, 1599. Paul Pindar, a secretary to the English ambassador, thinks he has lost his love, Celia, in a shipwreck. Now, two years later, clues begin to emerge that she may be hidden among the ranks of the slaves in the Sultan's harem. ...
A GRIPPING HISTORICAL TALE OF LOVE AND AVARICE IN VENICE A mysterious woman, crippled and mute, washes ashore on the Italian coast. She clutches a bundle to her chest -- a baby the citizens of the nearby town insist is a real-life mermaid. Seeing th...
Most men of stature wouldn't marry their betrothed after she'd been kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery in the harem of the Great Turk, but Paul Pindar, wealthy merchant and former ambassador to Constantinople, is not most men. When Paul and Cel...