Your name is John Rainwater. You're an aging and penniless private investigator. You may have killed someone. You and your client are up to your necks in something terrifying. The female spy who is supposed to be keeping you alive may be insane. And tomorrow things could get really bad. It began when the rich and beautiful Morgana Trehane burst into your low-rent office near the New Orleans docks, claiming that she has just escaped from kidnappers who grilled her about something called White Stone, which may be the realization of the ancient dream of turning base metal into gold. Within 24...

Nika Voronina, a beautiful young Russian woman, comes to a wealthy suburb of New Orleans as the trophy wife of a coarse, alcoholic lottery multimillionaire, who is unaware that his lovely plaything is the victim of a terrible crime that devastated her psychologically. Her solitary struggle to rebuild her shattered psyche has produced a mask of normalcy concealing a deadly inner reality. Violent revenge comes at a very high emotional price to the avenger, particularly a female avenger, and Nika pays that price in full. In the sunny midst of an upper class American suburb, the darkness behind...

To those they anonymously instruct, they are the Teachers, but they call themselves the Banshees, after the grisly Irish specters whose wailing foretells death - appropriately, since death is what they teach. The beautiful, wealthy Russian emigre, Nika Varon, and her red-haired Irish consort, Alanna Quinn, travel the world, instructing fellow victims of pedophile rapists in how to safely murder the men who destroyed their childhoods. Their obsession with homicidal vengeance is matched by FBI profiler David Lapin's obsession with putting an end to their lethal activities, despite having no...