State of Terror follows Ellen Adams, a novice Secretary of State, who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out...

Years after William Harrington participates in a 1920s project to redesign Jerusalem by bringing English parks to the desert, his revelations about long-buried secrets transform the life of his former employer's daughter.