Graduation week should be an exciting time for the Chemistry Department of Allston University, as they prepare to move from their shabby, haunted laboratories into a brand new building. Happily oblivious, they don't know that the President of the University, a candidate for an empty Senate seat and hungry for good publicity, is scheming to trade away their building to poach a Professor of Physics on the Nobel short list. The week might turn out to be more exciting than anyone had reckoned, what with the two different infernal devices stashed in the basement and the assassination scheduled for...

While the Continental Army fights for its life against the might of the British Empire, a small band of knights who stumbled upon a source of occult power five hundred years before conspire to take all of North America for themselves. Only the scientific genius of Benjamin Franklin and the espionage skills of an obscure African tribe stand can prevent the assassination of General Washington and the defeat of the Revolution.