Follows Anthony and Gloria Patch, a wealthy couple, through various romantic pursuits which leave them, after six years of marriage, with Anthony's mental and physical health in decline and Gloria's beauty waning.
When Chrysalis Moffat and her brother Eddie inherit a mansion on the coast of California, Eddie comes up with a plan to fleece their neighbors by starting a fraudulent Tibetan School of Miracles, and it soon becomes more successful than they ever imagined.
Dark truths and long-suppressed emotions come to the surface in 1979 when a successful Iowa farmer decides to cut one of his daughters out of his will.
When Rachel Lane learns that she has inherited eleven billion dollars from her biological father, she wants nothing to do with the money, or her father's other children who insist that they be given the money they feel they deserve, even though the will states they are to get nothing.
In a land that has been at war so long that no one remembers the reason for fighting, the shapeshifters who rule the two factions agree to marry in the hope of bringing peace, despite deep-seated fear and distrust of each other.
In the late 1100s, thirteen-year-old Will, the future Lord of Shackley, is exiled to Sherwood Forest, where he meets Robin Hood and the Merry Men and bands with them to try retake Shackley Castle.