The TesseractIn less than an hour, Sean has a meeting with a mestizo gangster. On the other side of town, Rosa listens for her husbands car, and thirteen year old Vincente is watching for the man who pays money for street kids dreams. Tonight, these disparate lives will violently collide . .

Katie and Harry are terrified by the arrival of another survivor and Katie knows she must finally undertake a previously unthinkable journey in search of the man she was supposed to marry

and his healers are baffled

but as Rose grows into a young adult

Basil Gray

Lucy herself begins to change

Jennie Melville's policewoman heroine

some beautifully decorated

ensuring that order prevails

a fortress full of mages who offer protection

In the house of Helios

the more he begins to unravel

evocative prose enhances a suspenseful and sophisticated plot