In 1987, while her mother sits in a Baltimore hotel at the deathbed of a grandmother twelve-year-old Annie never knew, Annie travels back fifty years and shares adventures with the lonely girl who will grow up to be her feisty grandmother.
Private investigator Tess Monaghan agrees to look into a series of unsolved homicides that date back over the past six years, but as she begins digging into the case, she uncovers a disturbing connection to the wealthy Baltimore benefactor who was instrumental in launching Tess's career.
Glynda Naylor and her three sisters, raised by their father Edward after their mother's death, begin to search for the truth about who the real Edward Naylor was when a secret he had been carrying for a long time is revealed at his funeral.
Lila Giles Calloway finds her marriage and her moral fiber tested when her idyllic life with her husband is threatened by a series of startling events.
Thirteen-year-old Hank comes of age while living in the suburbs of Baltimore and while struggling to contend with his troubled family, his peers, and the other perils of adolescence.
Journalist Darryl Billups, having been promoted to an editing job, returns to the streets as a reporter and unwittingly places himself in the orbit of a serial killer when he sets out to investigate the murders of young African-American professionals in Baltimore.
Drew, a member of a band of street performers in Baltimore, finds himself slipping back in time to sixteenth-century England, where he acquires the strength to deal with his unusual life style.
Perry, an adventurous young peregrine falcon, goes on a tour of his hometown, Baltimore, with his father, Beauregard, glimpsing such sights as the National Aquarium and Fort McHenry.
