Mortimer Mortensen, a secret agent who travels through time to prevent thieves and saboteurs from rewriting history, journeys from 1802 Burma to the Titanic's maiden voyage to unravel the mystery of who stole the much coveted Red Ruby.
Satoshi tells Daisuke the history behind the Hikari/Niwa curse and its link to works of art and a family of thieves, and Risa's life is threatened again.
"In this next installment of the high-interest Retribution series, Raven goes undercover to find the link between a pharmaceutical company and a wave of teen suicides."--.
Orphaned brothers Prosper and Bo, having run away from their cruel aunt and uncle, decide to hide out in Venice where they fall in with the Thief Lord, a thirteen-year-old boy who leads a crime ring of street children.
When eleven-year-old Kaci interrupts burglars in the process of robbing her house, she and her nosy elderly neighbor Mrs. Banducci are kidnapped and held hostage by the desperate and ruthless criminals.
Returning by moonlight to the inn where his true love, the landlord's daughter, awaits him, the highwayman is unaware that the king's soldiers also lie in wait for him, concealed in the girl's bedroom.