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Working in Mexico allows Michael Small an opportunity to uncover ancient tools of man. One he discovers with Victoria Windemere is a startling discovery of a Roman sword, a commander's sword. From the engraving on the sword it points out that the owner was the commander of the Ninth Legion. How that sword got to North America is a mystery. Follow the journey of a Roman vessel as it heads to Britannia and gets captured by a fierce storm and blown off course. Go with the Smalls to Britain and walk... more info>>
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Meghan and Georgina befriend an old man shunned as the town drunk. They discover he is an expert on horses. But as they try to help him they discover he has ghosts in his closet. They determine to find out what is haunting the old man and then they get into the past and find the mystery of a bank robbery in a small town called Furnace Cliffs, Kansas.
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A plane crash, which kills 86 passengers and crew up near the Canadian Tar Sands development near Fort McMurray, brings FAA and Canadian air crash experts to the crash site in the middle of a Canadian deep freeze. Kevin Browne, an FAA expert who comes in at the beginning of many air disasters has a reputation of finding the cause quickly. All possible causes need to be explored, including engine failure, airframe failure, pilot error and bird strikes as well as possible terrorist activity; the ... more info>>
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A letter from an elderly aunt brings the Small family to Britain. There the children discover that Dame Hesselford, their mother's great aunt is being haunted. They decide to find out what is happening and why someone is trying to force the old lady from her home. Their search brings them into the mystery of the lost treasure of Queen Boadicea, a British queen who fought against the Romans. Their attempt at solving the mystery brings them into an underground passage and when their way to escape ... more info>>
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Andrew Small has won two transatlantic tickets to attend a strange annual ritual held in CooperHill, England called Running the Cheese. Unknown to him and his brother Michael, it is the start of another adventure that dates back to the time of the Sepoy Mutiny in India in 1857 where a distant relative lost his life with hundreds of other British soldiers in the rebellion while stationed at Cawnpore. But before he died he entrusted a letter that would insure his son would inherit his estate and b... more info>>
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A strange and unexpected call from a lawyer brings the Small family to the Bahamian islands where an ancestor lost his only daughter in a kidnapping 150 years ago. Michael, Andrew and Meghan have the keys to discover what happened to this young girl whose painting is almost identical to Meghan. But they have to deal with a zombie who under a blood oath taken so many years ago awakens to find where the young girl has been kept for 150 years when the Sorceress put a curse on him and left the girl,... more info>>
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Hate was in his genes and ever since his ancestor Karl Toxopeus had fought the Zulu hoards and endured British occupation and their concentration camps, he and Boer ancestors hated the British and anyone remotely associated with them. Becoming a German spy and going to America to uncover the truth about the Manhattan Project was his way to ensure that Germany would win the war and the British would lose it. His discovery in America showed that once the Americans had joined the British after Pear... more info>>
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They say the Spanish Flu started in the resort town of San Sebasian, Spain, but whether it did or didn't it was one of the causes that helped end the First World War. The epidemic that spread across the world killed millions of people and the young were more susceptible than the middle aged. Thousands of soldiers on each side of the war died within days of contracting the disease. Ian Showmaker's uncle died of that pandemic flu. An expert in disease prevention he succumbed to it as did millions ... more info>>
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When you are a witness to an assassination trouble stalks you. It was no different for David Niven and his friend Chris Stern. The last words of the dying Islamic scholar are a plea to destroy information the old man has discovered. His plea leads to further death.
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Lienna West wants Blair Crowley to help her determine whether there are precious artifacts lying on the bed of the Bay of Naples off the site of Herculaneum. Blair Crowley wants to learn more about the beautiful and exotic archaeologist. Lienna has another reason for exploring the city destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius almost two thousand years before. Her grandfather, who bought his family's safety in World War II by offering artifacts to the local Nazi commander, disappeared in 1944 wi... more info>>
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Meghan and Georgina befriend a boy, Lars Petersen, in their class and find that he's frustrated, lonely and missing his friends back in Norway. Georgina helps him with his English and Math and discovers that his hobby relates to the history of the Vikings. Through her initiative she gets one of her friends who Meghan helped rescue his prized racehorse in the Bag of Bones Mystery to help Lars in his search for the truth about the Vikings in America. This friend has a sailing vessel and he allow t... more info>>
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Have you ever walked into or found yourself in a situation where you know instantly that you're in danger? What do you do? Most of us try and remove ourselves and then think about the situation. What happens when you aren't given that opportunity? David Thorsen found himself in a valley where death was the only visitor and when he went to seek aid from the nearest village his troubles began. The whole village population had been slaughtered and as he turned to go he too was attacked. When he wok... more info>>
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Exploring Sapper's Bog brings Michael and his friends upon the strange tree where dozens of shoes and boots have been nailed to its trunk. A sudden movement in the nearby bushes and the appearance of a strange creature drives them screaming home in fright. Their experience becomes important when suddenly there are thefts in their town, and health concerns over an epidemic downstream, which leads them into searching for the truth about Sapper's Bog and the time of the First Word War. The explorat... more info>>
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Time does not change the psyche of man. Those in power will do anything to retain their control. When you mix the supremacy of power (Divine Right) of kings and religious battles between the Holy Catholic Church and those heretics outside the one true religion then the use of greed, lust and murder are the tools that are necessary for success. In the battle between kings, rulers and those who commanded from the pulpit, one of man's greatest weaknesses is avarice. The Duke in the small Duchy of S... more info>>
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