After becoming famous and getting the attention of the daughter of a wealthy New York City developer following his rescue of a little girl from a speeding subway train, Nick looks for other people to rescue.

In the midst of danger, romance, and international politics, Matthew, Sabina, and their son, Tad McCullum, return to united Germany to participate in a conference on spreading the gospel in the postCold War era. The country has experienced many changes and new freedoms. Yet powerful men still plot ways to oppress and gain control. Unexpected encounters bring them face-to-face with the KGB and the remaining links of the Network of the Roseencounters...

On her eighteenth birthday, spoiled party girl Lexington Larrabee learns that her days of making tabloid headlines may be at an end when her ever-absent father decides she must learn some values by working a different, low-wage job every week for a year or forfeit her multimillion-dollar trust fund.

As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were considered the luckiest alive--until they began to fall mysteriously...