In a two-class society of nobles and peasants, Liz Pinetree, a field-worker peasant, falls in love with nobleman Michael Kavanaugh. She doesn't care that he must marry his sexy fianc e in an arranged marriage, or even that relationships between the classes are punishable by death. In ten months, Michael is slatted to join the ruling council and train to succeed his father as the leader. Risking everything for his love of Liz, he desperately seeks a way to legitimize it. As they struggle to stay a step ahead of plots to expose their forbidden affair, the two lovers spiral closer and closer to execution.
Arthur Riordan, a sixteen-year-old college freshman and seventeen-year-old, high school senior Gale Flanagan are on a quest to find the killer of Fedor Majorski, Professor of Mythology at Utopia College.The professor's students refer to him as "Professor Magic," although they know nothing about his mastery of the magical arts. Arthur and his mother simply call him The Professor. Only Arthur even suspects Majorski's abilities. The Professor began mentoring Arthur at an early age, although with questionable success on the boy's part.When the Professor fails to return from a day trip to the Museum of Natural History in New York City, Arthur sets out to find him. Upon arriving in the city, he meets Gale. Her father runs a private eye business. The two teenagers join forces and, with a little help from her father, they discover the Professor's body.Gale and Arthur each bring different skills to their efforts to find the killer. Arthur, who grew up on a college campus, is na ve and totally lacking in street smarts. Gale, grew up and works in the city absorbing street smarts and storing them under her locks of red hair. Her access to her father and his detective agency are also useful. Arthur brings his tenacity to the team and his magic, spotty as it is, seems to work when it is needed most.Follow Arthur and Gale as they stumble from one adventure to another, determined to find the Professor's killer and bring him to justice.
