An MPM Celebration

  Shout When med student Julie Newcomb is summoned to the crumbling family estate to tend her malicious, dying grandmother, all she expects is an unpleasant trip down memory lane. But Maidenwood, she finds, has recently made the news with the gruesome discovery of a skeleton on the grounds. With her cousin Matt desperately trying to make political capital out of it, an archaeological team working nearby headed by the man who broke her heart, and the returning memories of her childhood, she finds it harder than she expected. And anyway, who was the mysterious woman discovered, with her dead baby cradled in her arms? Is it in fact, as some claim, the fabled Lady Jocelyn, a seventeenth century figure of romance come to live in the New World? Or is it someone more recent...someone a little closer to home...?

  Amelia Peabody #3 Everybody Wants to Rule the World Thanks to Emerson's poor relationship with the French Director of Antiquities, this seasons finds the Emersons relegated to the dullest excavation site in Egypt...Mazgunah. But, with their catastrophically precocious son Ramses along for his first foray into archaeology, a footman on hand with a propensity for falling in love with unsuitable maidens, a mummy case that appears and disappears with alarming regularity in their storage room, and a Master Criminal on the loose, this season is shaping up to be anything but!

  Somebody's Watching Me After the death of her young Italian husband Bart in a car accident, American Kathy Malone seeks closure by visiting his grandmother at the ancient Florentine estate of the Morandinis. At first, the elegant, aristocratic Francesca is forbidding, but when Kathy accidentally gives the impression that she is pregnant, she suddenly finds herself welcome for an extended stay at the decaying villa. There, she befriends the visiting American professor David Brown, and the lonely ten year old count, Pietro. But some things at the estate don't quite add up--the vicious dog, the forbidden wing, and the purported 'madness' of Pete. And are the visions of Bart Kathy's having just nightmares? Or something more sinister?