Mark

A small boy runs away from home in Portugal. He jumps onto a ship and hides. Not knowing his destination, he is found by the ships cook, while at sea. He trembles as he is found out and then has to tell the captain why he is aboard. As his saga begins, they help him to his first destination...South America. Finding his way to North America becomes more frightening, until Sallie, his guardian angel, comes to his aid to help him in his journey.

Adam Lang has been Britain’s longest serving—and most controversial—prime minister of the last half century. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this memoirs, he hires a professional ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal, secrets with the power to alter world politics - secrets with the power to kill.

In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives.