Divorced and down-on his luck, Gaius Petrius Ruso is an army doctor who intends to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. Then he rescues an injured slave girl, Tilla and gets caught up in the investigation into the deaths of prostitutes working out of the local bar.
Sent home by the army, the crippled Captain Tom Forsyth quickly finds himself strained in his family home. Hoping to save his mother’s reputation, Tom sets out to discover and defeat this hidden enemy.
The mysterious doings at Hubbard House encourages some surreptitious snooping from Faith, and she joins the flu-depleted kitchen staff.
Abigail Adams is determined that justice for all is exactly that — for all, as she works to clear her husband of a murder charge and find her friend.
Banned from Egypt, Amelia Peabody and Emerson head to Palestine to dig up the Ark of the Covenant and spy on the seemingly inept Morley for British Intelligence.