“By the order of Wilhelm II, Emperor of the German Empire and King of Prussia, all male inhabitants of the Empire and its territories are hereby ordered to report for military duty according to the quotas so established.”

When war broke out in 1914 no one was safe from impressment. In the villages of the Vosges life would forever change as soldiers dragged the men off to war and opportunists pounced on those who remained. Families torn apart by war fled their traditional homelands or starved to death. When the Great Pandemic swept the countryside, those who survived believed Heaven itself had fallen.

As the modern pandemic spreads across France, an obsessed author is racing against time to find the remains of Marianne Bouchard haunted by the peals from the village bell.

"Confiscate all the wine. Every bottle, every barrel. Then burn the wineries and destroy the vines." As the Allies advanced up the Rhône river valley Himmler ordered the total destruction of the wines of the Alsace. Desperate to survive the German onslaught, the great wineries employed every trick they could to spare their treasures. At Château du Schoppenwihr a deranged colonel crossed swords with the resistance over a rumored ancient wine cellar - at a place they called La Maison Rouge.

Johanna was beautiful, beguiling, cunning … with a lust for wealth. She sought out the very rich plying the steamship lines from Italy to Argentina. Konrad Ackermann was young, naive … a former captain of the SS who abandoned Berlin as the Russian troops stormed the Führer bunker in April 1945. Konrad Ackermann … who financed his escape with a stash of solid gold coins, the Brotherhood coins minted by Martin Bormann to fund a resurgent German Fourth Reich. Konrad Ackermann … who Gela Pientka identified as the man who murdered Marianne.

In the chaos of a defeated Germany important people began to die as they sought refuge along the clandestine routes called ratlines between the ruins of Berlin and sanctuary in South America. Rumors spread of a fanatical SS officer, financed by stolen Nazi gold, who hunted those who abandoned their Führer in those dying days.

September 1944; Central France - A naive black soldier is caught in a forbidden love, snared in a web of greed and violence along the route of the famous Red Ball Express. As Tiffanie flees for her life - and the life of her unborn child - will they find her? Will they kill her?

The man known only as Cantillon - a brutal collaborator who unleashed a reign of terror on the streets of Paris - has arrived in Nord-Calais. His mission - to crush the black market resistance on the eve of D-Day where Hitler has decided the Allies will land. Holding his leash - a psychotic SS colonel bent on resurrecting his disintegrating career at any cost, obsessed with finding a lone American commando hiding as a patient in the infamous Ward 15 at Saint-Sauvuere Hospital. Innocent lives swirl in a complex maelstrom of cruelty, violence, and deception as the people of Nord-Calais struggle to simply find enough food to eat - balancing on the edge of the perfect void, the gateway to hell.

He stepped into view along the Tea House trail below the Berghof. The uniform was right. The cap was right. He could not see his face. A German Shepard bounced along beside him, into and out of the woods, the early November air crisp and clean, a smattering of snow filtering through the trees. Secretary Bormann stood with him ... as the crosshairs zeroed in. One more step ... and the course of the war will disintegrate into chaos. The man turned and looked right at him - the mustache, the face. He squeezed the trigger … was it the right face?

It was Monique's voice - desperate, terrified, pleading for help. The man who kidnapped Monique - he claimed to be Kennedy. But Captain Alexander Kennedy disappeared fifty years ago. How could he be the killer? Yet here he was - in Belgium. He demands the return of the Bishop's Ring or she will be the first to die. It began innocently enough as a hunt for the enigmatic Dao Chu Imperial Jade stolen by the Nazis. It has exploded into a desperate race to stop a psychopath. Lost in the grip of the ring's power the writer of The Juno Letters teeters on the edge, staring into the blackness of the perfect void, certain to be lost for eternity.

As war engulfs Europe German archeologists uncover a mysterious energy source buried deep in a cave in the Swabian Alb. Desperate to reverse the tide of war back in Germany’s favor, Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler orders the SS to turn the holenlicht into a weapon at any cost. The American OSS is equally determined to discover its secrets and avoid catastrophe for the Allied armies. A scientist’s journal holds the only truth - and even decades later keeps the superpowers at bay as they race to discover its secrets.

Anisette Durande holds the destiny of a free Brittany in her hands - desperate to keep the Madonna Rosa from the Germans as the Nazi onslaught rolls across defenseless France in 1940. She is La Guardienne - the last of a line of women descended from a lone survivor of a terrible slaughter, blessed to protect the ancient Madonna carved from the crucifix of the Christian martyrs of Roman Lyon. Her only hope - a chance encounter with a young British soldier on the road, himself fleeing the Germans toward an evacuation port on the Brittany coast. Scotty promises to return the Madonna to her - somehow ... yet becomes lost in the chaos and tragedy about to unfold in St. Nazaire.

They operate from "The Pit," a secret room beneath the ancient stone stables of Whitstable Castle. This team of experts feeds phony intelligence to the Germans. But Captain Janine Carlisle discovers a frightening secret - a fifth column who call themselves the Scavengers of Graveny Marsh have stumbled upon secret Allied plans for a swimming tank - the Duplex Drive Sherman - ready to go ashore in the first wave of the invasion. Carlisle must stop them before the secret can reach German command. The fate of D-Day hangs by a thread with only minutes to spare.

Letta held the hands of her two best friends as they stepped off the train. The rabbi searched the crowd for the couple who promised to shepherd the girls to safety. They fell instead into the Gestapo's trap - only to vanish into the faceless crowd in the confusion. Three young lives spun madly into the Nazi maelstrom, torn apart, surviving only on the slenderest thread of faith. As the Allied armies crept ever closer how could the three angels hope to survive the inescapable cataclysm?

A mysterious stone of black obsidian holds a magical grip over a rural French clan ripped apart by an ancient curse. The Nazis covet the relic as a weapon of immense power that will lead their armies to victory in the West. The Allies fear rumors of the stone mask a deadly weapon that threatens the invasion of Fortress Europe. The resistance risk annihilation to recover it. The French police and the Gestapo will destroy all in their path to possess it.

Gela Pientka defiantly kept a bloody truth that could topple governments and destabilize world currencies. To protect her family she took the secret to her grave. Gela's journal, however, exposes a stunning discovery - a corrupt "money train," supported by murder and slavery, fueled by the foul stench of greed. Truth is fighting back - fighting to reunite a family ripped apart by the Holocaust, to restore honor - with the Cross of Fire as a weapon against the forces of evil.

Letters discovered in a tin box hidden in the foundation of a small cottage in Normandy reveal a terrible secret. Antoine Bouchard's beautiful wife Marianne, his precious daughter Arièle, missing. The lives of hundreds - perhaps thousands - of Allied soldiers preparing to storm Juno Beach on D-Day literally are in his hands. Antoine must choose - to find Marianne and Arièle or face hell even if it means he could lose his family, his only friend, and his life.