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The first in a new historical mystery series featuring Dr. Clyde Deacon - Widower Clyde Deacon arrives in 1902 Fairfield, New York, to take up the post of doctor. Regarded with some suspicion by the towns inhabitants because he comes from Tennessee, he was also personal physician to President McKinley at the time of his assassination. A beautiful young actress is found murdered and Deacon is asked by the overworkedtownsheriff to assist him in the case. Gradually he discovers that the inhabitants of Fairfield are not as innocent as they seem.

For a millennia they seduced us with their visions of hope, and a mythology that became our religion. Now, the Benefactors are about to be unmasked for what they really are-and mankind may not have a prayer...

With the future of humankind hanging in the balance, a team of engineers is sent to the asteroid Ceres--once home to a genetically altered race of humans with a predisposition to violence that had been destroyed by Earth's government--to make it habitable, only to discover that they are not alone. Original.