"In the tower of Count Stelli in the ancient city-state of Agora, two children meet, apparently by chance. Mark has escaped the plague ravaging the city's slums. Lily is the servant who cares for him. At first, their only goal is survival: In Agora, everything can be bought and sold, debt is death, and Mark and Lily must barter their labor for their lives. Then comes an opportunity for them to exchange destinies: for Lily to escape the tower for the...

"Scientist, mathematician, and court astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, John Dee is also one of the sixteenth century's most renowned alchemists, driven by a passion to fathom the elemental secrets of the cosmos. But when his reckless assistant, Edward Kelley, succeeds in using a crystal sphere to summon angels, Dee is catapulted into an awesome struggle that may extinguish the light of reason forever." "One of the spirits invoked is a cunning demon...

A tale of astrology and murder, featuring Jane Smith, a Denver accountant. Bored with her job, she starts a newspaper column offering advice to the lovelorn, spiced with astrology. Problems begin when a recipient of her advice is murdered and Jane finds the killer gazing at her.

Stella the Stargazer, who writes a column on astrology for a Denver newspaper, receives a death threat from a man blaming her for his wife leaving him. So Stella takes off on a holiday to a gambling casino, but the killer follows. By the author of A Love to Die For.