Known as the Veiled One, Akenhaten is a shadowy figure. When he is thrust into the political limelight when his elder brother dies, the ambitious and ruthless Mahu watches the young prince carve his own path to power and becomes his protector and confidant through a turbulent reign.

Agrippina, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero: a beautiful, talented woman, who saw her father murdered and was killed on her son's orders. Her freed man, Parmenon, tells the story of her battle to survive in the violent Imperial Roman court, and her crumbling relationship with her son.

Hatusu, the widow of Pharoah Tuthmosis II, has gained success in battle which is spreading Egypt's glory far and wide. In the temple of Anubis she argues terms of peace with the defeated Mitanni King. Two horrific slayings and the theft of the Glory of Anubis threaten the tentative truce.

Stumbling upon an execution, Chaucer's pilgrims witness a hanging that leaves the carpenter in a dead faint. That evening, he narrates the tale of a Gloucester hangman whose involvement in the secretive punishment of three witches unleashes a vicious spate of revenge killings.

Aided by her lover, Senenmut, Hatusu is determined that all sections of Egyptian society should accept her as the first Pharoah-Queen of Egypt. But after a spate of killings, Amerotke is again called on to find the truth amongst the suspicion.

"The Magician's Death" is set in a snow-besieged castle where secret knowledge is the prize and human life the price to be paid.

"The Magician's Death" is set in a snow-besieged castle where secret knowledge is the prize and human life the price to be paid.

On his return to Thebes after great victories against sea raiders, Pharaoh Tuthmosis II is struck dead at the foot of the statue of Amun-Ra. As news of his death spreads, a witch pollutes the Pharaoh's unfinished tomb, and so begins a series of events which must reveal the great secrets of Egypt.

China in the 13th century, and the legendary Kublai Khan rules over Cathay and the Middle Kingdom. Of his many ministers his favourite is one Marco Polo. So it is to Marco that he turns when a series of evil omens threaten the land and the leaders of a demonic sect seek to destroy his kingdom.

Lord Amerotke, Pharaoh's Chief Judge, is already in the middle of a murder case when it seems that there is another grave murder to investigate. One of Egypt's great heroes has been brutally killed & Pharoah Hatusu has decided to intervene.