Böcker utgivna av Albedo Press

When Peg Ryan has a chance to join her Marine fighter pilot husband in Tsingtao, China in 1947, she jumps at it. After their separation during World War II and his year in China, her family could be whole again. Soon Peg and her seven-year-old daughter are on a transport ship to China forming friendships with other Marine families. Once the Riviera of the Orient, Peg discovers Tsingtao's layered complexity as she lives in a mansion with servants, volunteers at a local orphanage, and befriends those who mingle with the international community. Her life becomes tangled with others through loves, losses, births, deaths, and intrigue in a city where little is as it seems. As Mao's troops threaten the city and its strategic port, Peg will discover if coming to China has saved or destroyed her family.

"When Thomas Jefferson left his well-ordered Monticello Plantation for Paris in 1784 to negotiate trade treaties for America, he took the enslaved James Hemings with him as his manservant. Having taught Hemings to read and play the violin at Monticello, Jefferson now has him trained in the finest of French cuisine. Living in Paris, where the French had abolished slavery, Hemings discovers an independence, a skill, and a romance beyond his imagination. Torn between family and freedom as the French Revolution erupts, Hemings makes a choice that changes Jefferson and America."--

World famous thriller author Jack Forrester is estranged from his family and struggling with writer's block in his Connecticut fishing cabin. When his agent reminds him that his draft is due in a month, Jack lies that he just needs a few "location" updates in Paris to polish it. His agent arranges for Jack and a new editor, twenty-something Eileen Ross, to stay in a luxurious apartment in Paris. Eileen soon discovers that Jack hasn't written one word and both of their careers are about to crash. Eileen suggests several writing strategies, all which defeat Jack. Fearing for his safety and sanity, she contacts Dr. Greg Patel, a former lover who is a research physician in Paris. Together, they renew their relationship while discovering that Jack has a reversible form of dementia. Together, Jack, Eileen, and Greg face life-altering crossroads.

In 1916, the market for stolen antiquities is booming. When Jack Meade, an American oilman and antiquarian, buys an unsorted collection of old maps, he discovers a priceless Viking-era map hidden in the crate. The royal seal on the map is that of King Baldwin who claimed it for his collection during the Eleventh Century. The fabled Baldwin Portolano has an Old English riddle on it which points to the location of a multi-million dollar treasure hoard. Hidden in the riddle is a both a missing part of England's history and a threat to its future. If the German agents on Meade's trail get the map and decode it it first, the treasure could fund Germany's military advantage. British Intelligence dispatches a shell-shocked linguistic scholar from the trenches of France and a female physician, who is also an amateur archeologist, to assist Meade. The three must outrun Germany's top Secret Agent, outwit the ancient riddle-maker, and conquer their inner demons if England is to have its treasure, its history, and peace.

When a well-intentioned lawyer discovers that violinist Emily Finch Montgomery is a victim of the Swiss banking fraud that hid dormant accounts from owners for decades, he threatens to unravel her lifetime of carefully crafted lies. She must decide if her legacy to her family is the comfortable lie or the truth of her escape from Prague when Hitler annexed Czechoslovakia.