The Prodigal Son begins with a man named Magnus discovering that his bride, Thora, is in love with his brother Oscar on their wedding day. However, when Magnus releases her from the engagement, she moves on quickly and marries Oscar. The story follows a tragedy that befalls the newlywed couple and the reaction of the characters to it. This emotionally evocative tale introduces intriguing personalities that complete each other yet are unique in their own way.

This is a fictional depiction of Morocco in the last years of Sultan Abd er-Rahman. The ashes of that tyrant are cold, and his grandson sits in his place, but men who earned his displeasure linger yet in his noisome dungeons, and women who won his embraces are starving at this hour in the prison palaces in which he immured them. His reign is a story of yesterday; he is gone, he is forgotten; no man so meek and none so mean but he might spit upon his tomb. Yet the evil work which he did in his evil time is done today, if not by his grandson, then in his grandson's name-the degradation of man's...

This is a romance story set on the Isle of Man during the First World War. Mona's brother is called up for service and she is left with her aging father. The authorities want to set up an internment camp for German POWs and Mona Craine agrees to provide food for the Germans. She hates them but falls in love with a young German called Oskar. Their blossoming romance is where Mona's life begins to get complicated.