J. Gregory Keyes

Sir Isaac Newton and Benjamin Franklin must combine forces against a wave of black magic that plays havoc with eighteenth-century Europe and threatens a repeat of the dark ages unless the pair can come up with a plan

Benjamin Franklin and Red Shoes, the Choctaw shaman, join forces with Adrienne de Montchevreuil, a magic-wielding French aristocrat, to defeat the Sun Boy and the armies of the Malakim.

When three human empires unite to defeat the inhuman Drehhu, Captain Alastor Nevelon, setting sail against the enemy, is forced to send his daughter Chrysanthe to the capitol city--a dangerous place where courtly manners hide murderous intentions--to discover whatever plots may be afoot in the heart of Ophion.