Thirty-eight-year-old single mother Rebecca Martin, having shed her romantic illusions along with her ex-husband, discovers she may have given up on love too soon when Michael Christopher, a man who has just left the monastery after twenty years, moves into her downstairs apartment.

In November, 1139 A.D., Brother Cadfeal becomes involved in the search for two missing orphans and their escort.

Pendergast has taken Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been mysteriously stolen. Pendergast agrees to take up the search. . .

"As a late spring blizzard brews, Brother Christopher, a cloistered monk at Blue Mountain Monastery in Vermont, rushes to tend to his Ida Red and Northern Spy apple trees in advance of the unseasonal snowstorm. When the storm lands a young Somali refugee, Sahro Abdi Muse, at the monastery, Christopher is pulled back into the world as his life intersects with Sahro's and that of an Afghan war veteran in surprising and revealing ways"--Provided by publisher....

Bishop Blackwood Ryan finds himself the target of threats and attacks when he is sent by his Cardinal to investigate the death of a Russian Orthodox monk who was found shot to death in his Chicago office with the door bolted from the inside.

Master herbalist and monk Brother Cadfael falls under suspicion of murder when a traveler is murdered with monkshood oil from Cadfael's own laboratory.

In 1666, Magdalena, the hangman's daughter and her physician husband arrive at Andechs Abbey where they, along with Jakob Kuisl, the hangman of Schongau, set out to find the mysterious Brother Virgilius, a monk, watchmaker and inventor, who disappeared after creating an eerie automata.

Normally at home in the abbey on Cape Cod, Brother Bartholomew winds up in Bermuda during a sailing regatta. Unfortunately, he takes part in a horrible murder investigation that becomes his worst nightmare.