Fifteen-year-old Giacomo, servant to Leonardo da Vinci, helps his procrastinating master finish painting, "The Last Supper," while also trying to find clues to his parentage and pursue his own career as an artist in late fifteenth-century Milan.
Just after the First World War, thirteen-year-old Meredith must leave her small-town school to work as a servant in a doctor's home to help support her family, but, when the deadly Spanish Flu epidemic sweeps across the city, the doctor's household falls apart as its members fall ill one by one.
In Canton, Texas, seventeen-year-old Mercy's dreams of a different life than her mother's are postponed by harsh circumstances, including the influenza epidemic of 1918-19, which forces her into doing domestic work for a loving, if troubled, family.
The portrait of a perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world in postwar England. He begins to question whether his long-time service to Lord Darlington was truly given to what he thought was "a great gentleman".
Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work as maids and nannies for their classmates. But their relationships are tested when one girl's mother is accused of stealing a precious heirloom.
Eleven-year-old Tabby Aykroyd, who would later serve as housekeeper for thirty years to the Bront? sisters, is taken from an orphanage to a ghost-filled house, where she and a wild young boy are needed for a pagan ritual.
