From the moment of her arrival at the gloomy Bascomb mansion in the New England port Scots Harbor, Miranda becomes the target of a strange, hostile conspiracy.She knows she must sift out the truth by herself. She can trust no one in the bizarre household; least of all the dour Brock McLean, whom the Captain insists she marry....

    On is set in myth-enshrouded Africa. The other against the Mosques and Minarets of Modern Turkey. In Blue Fire Susan returns to Africa with her husband whom she recently married but scarely knows. Susan fears her first encounter with her father who drover her mother and her from his home and later served a prison term for smuggling diamonds.In Black Amber Tracy vows to solve the mystery of her sister's "suicide by drowning". Tracy is in Istanbul and overhears a heated argument but the only word she knows is her own name. What is the meaning of a string of black amber beads marking an alarming passage in a book? Is Radburn part of some loathsome secret hidden in the past? Tracy senses that she may already know too much and that her life is in peril!