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Nick and Julia O'Connor's dream trip to Venice collapses when a haunting voice reaches out to Nick from Tintoretto's Paradise, the world's largest oil painting. Though Julia worries her husband suffers from a delusion, Nick is adamant the voice belongs to a woman from the 16th century—his soul mate from a previous life. He discovers a religious order that has developed a method of extracting people's souls, which they imprison in Paradise. Over the centuries, they've judged thousands of souls and sentenced them to eternal purgatory.

Hellenic Gendarme, Major Mikhail Remis is a man in demand. Feared as much by fellow officers as the criminal underworld, Remis grapples with his own sense of rough justice. When the body of Mossad undercover agent, Konrad Tafel is found deep in the Balkan Mountains, Remis is ordered by his veiled, powerful master, Manolis Callas to clear up yet another unwanted mess. Within hours the policeman is drawn into a web of lies and corruption and finds himself on the trail of a vicious killer.

One chilly October day in 1873, three lonely people with very different pasts leave the desolation of fire-ravaged Chicago and board a Great Lakes steamship hoping for a better life. Maribeth Eaton escaped the suffocating expectations of her wealthy British family to make her own path and find purpose in America, and though things haven’t worked out as planned, one last chance for success awaits at the end of this voyage.

Five prostitutes are murdered in the East London districts of Spitalfields and Whitechapel in 1888. In present-day Australia, Henry Evans, is a fourth-generation doctor. He and his wife, Claire have three children: Harriet, 13, Lucy, 10 and John, six. Henry and Harriet both relive in their dreams the murders of the so-called canonical five. Their nightmares are frighteningly similar in detail, especially the death of the fifth victim, Mary-Jane Kelly. The family starts to unravel as the nightmares begin to control their lives.

Two thousand years ago, a Persian general and his seneschal march through the dunes, leaving behind rivers of blood. In 2011, the dark side of NATO’s presence in Iraq pushes a local woman to flee into the night, clutching a golden vase to her chest. Fast forward to today, where American archaeologist Diane Ryan discovers a mass grave in the hot sands of Syria.

After escaping Venice with their lives, Nick and Julia O'Connor have one goal: return home so they can end their nightmare vacation. But before they reach the American consulate, they're captured by Interpol and returned to Venice. Behind Nick's detention is Salvatore della Porta, the corrupt head of an ancient, enigmatic order that controls Paradise, Tintoretto's Renaissance masterpiece that's also a purgatory for thousands of souls—including Nick's soul mate from the sixteenth century.