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|  | | Desperate Crossing
An intrepid couple solves mysteries around the world during the mid-nineteenth century.
Stranded on Russia's east coast in the year of 1840, two couples make a desperate attempt to cross the vast wilderness of Siberia and return to civilization. Their survival is jeopardized by harrowing encounters with Cossacks, Manchu, escaped convicts and ultimately, Tsar Nicholas whose men pursue the castaways for murders tied to a Romanov conspiracy involving a giant ruby known as the Antares. Historically accurate events provide non-stop suspense.
| |  | | Fair Wind to Bahia
An intrepid couple solves mysteries around the world during the mid-nineteenth century.
Shipwrecked on a Brazilian beach in the year 1834, two couples stumble onto a plantation where they find a knife in the owner’s back.
Harrowing encounters with Indians, escaped slaves and ruthless landlords conspiring to assassinate eight-year old future leader, Dom Pedro II, lead to a dangerous transfusion to save the cholera-stricken young prince.
One of the castaways holds the cure in a tiny jar of red. He could save his own life, revive the prince or rescue his wife from the conspirators in exchange for the vessel, but there’s only enough blood for one.
| |  | | Lost in Tanganyika
An intrepid couple solves mysteries around the world during the mid-nineteenth century.
In 1862, William and Elizabeth Darmon escape from Zanzibar, crossing hostile territory to Lake Victoria. Pursued by ruthless slavers, they flee to Niam Niam country in Darkest Africa. There, William is forced on a desperate mission to save his wife from cannibals. Upon his return, he discovers evidence that she has been sold as a slave to the Arab Rashid family in Hayil across the Red Sea. His chase ends in a disaster beyond imagination, with redemption dependent upon solving Emir Talal’s demise. Historically accurate events provide non-stop suspense. | |  | | Message of the Pendant
An intrepid couple solves mysteries around the world during the mid-nineteenth century.
William Darmon and wife Elizabeth were powerful figures who in 1818 set society's pace from expansive grounds known as Mayfair Hall. When a family member is murdered on their premises, a mysterious pendant is found containing a long lost request by Napoleon Bonaparte for an American mission to burn down Parliament buildings.
The couple sets out on an action filled pursuit of the killer. While visiting Henry Clay in post-war Maryland, evidence surfaces of a French conspiracy to free the Emperor from exile. The Darmonds race to prevent the Vice President’s kidnapping in exchange for N | |  | | Patriote Peril
An intrepid couple solves mysteries around the world during the mid-nineteenth century.
Following the return of an empty carriage, Elizabeth begins a harrowing pursuit of her family's kidnappers. From New Brunswick, she trails them to Quebec City where she finds a woman posing as herself with another husband. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law recovers from a gunshot wound and wanders in the wilderness until he meets the Patriote Party's fanatical element of Reformers and is swept into their rebellion.
| |  | | The Forth Conspiracy
An intrepid couple solves mysteries around the world during the mid-nineteenth century.
William Darmon and his wife Elizabeth, owners of Mayfair Hall, fall victim to rival Forth family who introduce a bill into Parliament called the Writ of Confiscation. It will repossess the Darmon's ancestral home unless they can find their missing deed. A late family friend hid the document on a trip to Egypt decades earlier, leaving a clue to its location only visible in the night sky of 1825. As the Darmons begin to unravel the mystery, a Forth body turns up on their doorstep.
William and brother-in-law, Charles set off for the Mediterranean only to be waylaid by Greek independence | |  | | Without Redemption
An intrepid couple solves mysteries around the world during the mid-nineteenth century.
In the spring of 1846, William and Elizabeth Darmon receive a mysterious letter from a soldier dying on a Punjab battlefield. Soon after, a Sikh refugee arrives at London dock pursued by a Russian agent who kills the warrior and kidnaps Elizabeth. William trails them to India and confronts the predator high on Rakaposhi Mountain only to witness an invasion of Cossacks coming over the Himalayas enroute to join a rebel leader in Jammu. |
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