Now as a threat from his past emerges his only clue is a hypertext journal of his past life. A huge group of colonists have secretly entered a protected world, a place of great beauty and equal hardship. Olmy Ap Sennon is sent to investigate the effect of this illegal immigration and learn more about this unusual planet. The artificial intelligence the Oversoul of Harmony has returned to Earth, its planet of origin, because it needs the Keeper of Earth to repair damages. Shedemei, a human, must search for the Keeper.
All women are slaves in Holdfast.
Escapee Aldera leads a band of free females back to conquer Holdfast. Then she must decide how former slaves should treat their former masters. In an alternate universe a decade of a devastating plague has left 1920's Minneapolis a shadow of its former self. A reporter ignores opposition to investigate a series of bizarre murders that may be the work of a vampire. The Fire Rose 1995 Penniless scholar Rosalind Hawkins takes a job as a reader in 1905 San Francisco, unaware her unseen new employer is a master adept who tried and bungled the old werewolf transformation.