Lily Pierce is sick of being haunted. She decides to reconnect with her estranged father, a disgraced history professor, and learn how to draw upon a time of steel and blade when armor-clad knights rode out and dueled their monsters to the death.

Biografska drama o boksarju, ki je postal katoliški duhovnik. Stuart je odraščal kot agnostik, brez kakršnegakoli poduka o veri. Menjaval je službe, preizkusil se je v boksu, tudi kot filmski igralec, a po številnih preobratih v življenju je začutil Božji klic in želel postati duhovnik. S tem se je njegova pot preizkušenj šele zares začela.

On March 25, 1996, the publicist Jan Philipp Reemtsma is kidnapped. His son Johann and his wife Ann Kathrin witness how their home is transformed overnight into a police control center. Two police officers, the family’s lawyer and a close friend form a community of fate, united by their common goal of bringing Johann’s father home as quickly and unharmed as possible.

Zgodba se dogaja leta 1862 na podeželju Irske in pripoveduje o mladem dekletu po imenu Anna, ki nenadoma neha jesti, a je kljub temu po mesecih posta še vedno živa. Trdi, da vso hrano, ki jo potrebuje, črpa od boga in svoje vere. Ko Annina zgodba začne pritegniti pozornost tako lokalne skupnosti kot širšega sveta, je sestavljena komisija, ki naj preišče ta na videz čudežni primer. Lib Wright, angleška medicinska sestra, je poslana, da opazuje družino in Anno. Je to morda nova svetnica, ki »živi od nebeške mane«, ali pa so na delu še bolj zlovešče sile?

A man is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. When his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises an elaborate and dangerous plan to rescue his son and avenge the murder.