Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. Jack McCallum, Emma's estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition had grounded and embittered him. He must watch from the sidelines as his wife prepares for her first mission to the International Space Station. Once aboard the space station however things begin to go terribly wrong...

Lawrence Sander's most popular character, playboy sleuth Archy mcNally, returns in an enticing new novel of sun and sin in Palm Beach- where the rich count their schemes before they're hatched. Well-to-do widow Edythe Westmore has announced her intent to invest a large part of her fortune in a Faberge Imperial egg. Horrified, her children argue about the financial risk- and enlist Archy's services to put the kibosh on the deal. But when the sleuth sticks his nose in the widow's business, the whole case begins to smell like a rotten egg...but much harder to crack...

When Adam Cauliff's new cabin cruiser, the Cornelia II, blows up in a New York Harbour with him and several close business associates aboard, his wife, Nell McDermott, is not only distraught at the loss but wracked with guilt because she and Adam had had a serious quarrel, and she had told him not to come home. As the investigation proceeds, Nell is shocked by the official confirmation that it was not an accident but foul play. As Nell searches for the truth about Adam's death, she receives messages from him translated by a medium. What she doesn't know is that she is being closely watched, and the nearer she comes to learning what actually happened on the boat that night, the nearer she is to becoming the next victim of a ruthless killer.