The Merchant Princes Books in Order

Journalist Miriam Beckstein receives a mysterious locket and discovers she can travel to a parallel Earth. Meeting her powerful birth family draws her into a world where medieval politics, criminal trade and modern technology create deadly entanglements.

Miriam Beckstein finds herself entangled in the rivalries of wealthy families who trade between parallel worlds. Applying modern business methods offers possibilities for independence, but family obligations, concealed schemes and dangerous contraband threaten her survival and ambitions.

Miriam builds a legitimate business in a third timeline, hoping to escape her powerful family's control. But clan politics tighten around her, and a proposed royal marriage threatens to turn her independence into another tool of dynastic ambition.

Miriam Beckstein hides in another world after escaping an unwanted royal betrothal. Civil war engulfs the Clan's homeland, while rival factions pursue their interests and dangers she does not yet understand threaten her chances of remaining free.

Civil war traps the Clan's army under siege across two universes, while its leader's stroke encourages political maneuvering. Miriam becomes the focus of a progressive faction's ambitions as an American technological breakthrough threatens to reshape the conflict.

A rogue Clan faction launches nuclear attacks in America, leaving Miriam and her relatives facing annihilation across parallel worlds. Political conspiracies close off potential refuges, while New Britain's own upheavals make escape increasingly uncertain and dangerous.