Faced with increasingly harsh winters and deteriorating morale in fifteenth-century Greenland, a young man struggles to rally the last few surviving Norse colonists, who feel their only hope is rescue by ships from Norway.
Having grown up as an orphan of the streets while sixteenth-century Japan is being ravaged by civil war, Saru seeks to help a samurai rescue his wife from imprisonment by a warlord so they can all flee to a more peaceful life.
In turbulent sixteenth-century Japan, orphaned Taro is taken in by a general serving the great warlord Takeda Shingen and grows up to become a samurai fighting for the enemies of his dead family.
A fourteen-year-old serving boy finds himself surrounded by suspicion and betrayal as his master gathers a group of samurai to avenge Lord Asano's death.
The son of a plantation owner in Jamaica is kidnapped by the pirate Blackbeard and held for ransom. He befriends a young slave from another pirate ship and together they plan their escape.
