This is a historic-romantic novel about a small American pioneer town in Eastern Wisconsin. It traces several generations of mainly one Yankee family arriving from New England early in the nineteen century and continuing into the early twentieth century. The book follows the history of the town over the period as close as possible. All the characters in the book are based on real people, but their lives and loves portrayed in this novel are purely fictional.

This is a romantic novel involving the love story of a US naval officer, the commander of a Navy destroyer, and a beautiful Dutch girl, the daughter of a Dutch attache in Manila. It takes place during the initial months of the Second World War in the Far East, and the final demise of the US Asiatic Fleet. It begins in the Philippines and continues in the Dutch East Indies (now, Indonesia). The story alternates between the love affair and the officer's naval duties during the Japanese invasion and conquest of the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies. Their love affair is complicated by the ongoing war and the efforts of the girl's parents to stop it. Instead, the parents want their daughter to marry a close family friend. The tempo is dictated by the slow but steady advance of the Japanese military through the Philippines and the Indonesian islands, and the struggle of the lovers to continue their romance despite all the difficulties.

This is a romantic novel about an American architect sent to India by an American-owned company to teach local young architects American standards of construction. While visiting some of the exotic temples and sights, he has an affair with an Indian co-worker in the office, for which he is beaten and hospitalized. Later he gets involved with a newly arrived American girl who instead is almost engaged to the boss's best friend. Nevertheless, they see many sights together including the famous Taj Mahal. Finally they secretly spend a week together in Goa, but end up getting caught by the girl's supposed fiance. The affair concludes in conflict and a secret attempt to escape from India.

This is a romantic novel involving an American Architect who is sent to Indonesia to supervise the construction of a highrise office building in Jakarta. He comes to admire the city and then falls in love with an Indonesian girl. He travels around the country to Bali and many other places while his building is slowly being constructed. But then his life suffers from a world-wide recession, shoddy workmanship on his highrise, and the building owners blaming him for all the problems. His love's former husband, meanwhile, claims that she is still married to him. After suffering through many problems, they finally get married and honeymoon in Hawaii. But the bride is then kidnapped, and during the rescue operation they are struck by a gigantic tsunami. Finally, the couple has a suspenseful time as they try to depart from Jakarta,

American travels to Near East right after World Trade Center Towers destruction, and encounters sympathy to Osama bin Laden among the locals, as well as romance with an US Embassy woman, as the war in Afghanistan begins.