Inge Boag and her family embark on a life filled with cultural and tribal mysteries when they intially make their home in West Africa in the mid 1960s. Monrovia, Liberia, the land of black faces, freed slaves, of gold and blood diamonds. Rituals, dance, masks and laughter, spirits, blood and witchcraft are the ingredients of daily existence. The revolution in 1980 triggers a series of events whose momentum catches Inge in its grip and forces her to make a tragic choice.

Amporn, a naive Thai university student's life is forever shattered when she falls hopelessly in love with a handsome opportunist. When police accuse and arrest her for smuggling drugs into Thailand she is totally confused and disconcerted. After her situation normalizes, she swears vengeance against the man who caused her predicament although she doesn't know his real name. Not until her daughter's eighteenth birthday does Amporn discover that the man wooing her daughter is the same man who fathered her child and abandoned her to her fate.

In 1942 World War II is in full swing. German cities are bombarded on a daily basis and many civilians die. To keep her daughter safe, Mrs. Lyndt takes six year old Inge to her mother's estate in Prussia. There Inge befriends Paul-Emile Diderot, a sixteen year old French prisoner of war. As the Red Army advances on Prussia, Paul-Emile decides to escape with Inge his ticket to freedom. They leave the estate at the end of January 1945, during the coldest winter in a decade. In a chaise drawn by two horses they join the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Germans to the west. Inge expects adventure, instead finds herself mired in a cataclysm. After months of hardship and struggling against nature and enemy forces they reach Paris. Traumatized by his experiences, Paul-Emile distances himself from the girl who loves him. At fourteen a rebellious Inge is reunited with her parents who are at a loss how to handle her willful independence. Inge blames all her problems, mostly self inflicted, on the war and Paul-Emile. Thirty-five years later their paths cross again at an archaeological dig in Egypt.

Rejection is the obsessed person's worst nightmare. A man is consumed with love for a ballerina. A family ripped asunder because of that love. A new beginning for the ballerina. The man, still consumed with love and jealousy, resorts to violence. From Alabama to Malaysia, to Thailand and the islands of the Andaman Sea, the man's unrequited desires bring terror to the object of his affection. Only his death can set her free.

The Rebellion of Nilofleur is an intimate tale of human relationships; an unforgettable historical love story of deep passion, self discovery and a woman's subservient position in the mid-eighteen hundreds in Egypt. It shows Nilofleur's struggles with the polarizing differences between the East and West. Philippe Morelet, a Parisian aristocrat, becomes enthralled with the young woman, trapped in an arranged, loveless marriage and follows her to Egypt where he is befriended by her husband Abdullah. Fate seems intent on keeping them separated, but they take risks even thought it could cost them their lives. Their tribulations culminate during the celebrations of the grand opening of the Suez Canal.