June 1631 - Baltimore, Ireland"Malcolm woke up just before dawn broke over the cove. He heard a loud crash and climbed out of bed. He sniffed the air and smelled smoke. He was barely six years old, but...

August 1832 - St. Francis, Western Ontario"A two-wheel buggy rolled across the long grassy prairie near a large manor house. A man in a buckskin coat spied a young woman in a bonnet and a dirty white...

Latchmere House, London, 1941"In the interrogation room, MI6 Major Frank Foley and Captain Short sat at a table with the chief interrogator, Lt-Colonel Robin 'Tin Eye' Stephens in his Gurkha uniform and...

May 1914 - St. Lawrence River, Canada"The Empress was listing to starboard at a dangerous angle. Alice and her son Jamie, a little boy in a sailor suit, sat perched on the railing, looking down at the...

Stortorget Square, Stockholm, 1945."In a side street, Peter waited near the car with Evdokia dressed in a grey raincoat. Her head was covered with a black cloth bag. A car stopped on the opposite side...