inheritance and succession

A young boy living in Newport, Rhode Island in 1710 enjoys imaginary adventures with make-believe pirates, until the day real pirates come ashore for evil purposes and leave him a remarkable memento. Includes ideas for activities related to family heirlooms.

The inheritance of her father's vast fortune and contact with a variety of people with suspicious motives trigger a series of attempts on Lucinda's life in her isolated island home, which is a stronghold of Spain within the boundaries of the United States.

When a little girl is abandoned on a ship going to Australia in 1913 and arrives with only her clothes and a book of fairy tales, she is raised by the dockmaster and his wife as their own; as a young woman, she travels to England where, over time, her own granddaughter eventually assembles the pieces of her life's puzzle.

When King Lear banishes his favorite daughter for opposing him, his other two daughters plot against him in this classic Shakespearean play.

Sherry, the brains behind her Aunt Cora's fame as the author of a popular syndicated crossword puzzle column, finds herself in somewhat of a dilemma when Cora is assigned the duty of refereeing a contest between the possible heirs of Emma Hurley's estate.

Left at a New York boarding school by Aunt and Uncle Twice, eleven-year-old Emily finds horrors even greater than those she faced at Sugar Hill Hall, especially after she gets word that her inheritance is lost.

King Lear foolishly disinherits his favorite daughter when she speaks out against him and splits his kingdom between his other two daughters, not realizing they are secretly plotting against him.

In late-fourteenth-century England, Finn, a master illuminator, works on an English translation of the Bible, but fears that if his work is discovered he will be persecuted by the Church.

Takeo and Kaede combine their powers in order to do battleagainst Arai Daiichi, the warlord who controls most of the Three Countries.