About the book: 2006 / ...Six months have passed since the Hamburg surgeon Beatrice Helmer returned from traveling through time, where she was in the harem of the Emir of Bukhara. After a quarrel with a former friend, she loses consciousness, and when she comes to her senses, she realizes that she is again in a foreign country. The man who found her introduces himself to her as Maffeo Polo, Marco Polo's uncle. The famous nephew of an elderly Venetian begins to become interested in a strange woman who has arrived from the distant West. Soon Beatrice makes a terrible discovery: Marco Polo is involved in a conspiracy that poses a mortal threat to his own uncle.…