Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dangerously aggressive towards Jane.

A gang of four professional criminals brazenly kidnaps a wealthy teenage girl from an airport in Paris in a meticulous plan to extort money from the girl’s father.

Prowling the crime-ridden streets of New York, freelance shutterbug Leon “Bernzy” Bernstein dives into a shadowy underworld of mob violence, unlikely romance and dangerous corruption.

In the 11th century, the powerful Duke William of Ghent sends his most trusted knight and a troop of warriors to guard Normandy’s coastal settlements from plunder and pillage by Frisian raiders. Smitten with Bronwyn, the foster child of village elder Odins, the war lord is tempted simply to take her, under the feudal custom of droit du seigneur, but finds he is falling in love.