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The sorceress Aurya will kill an innocent child to fulfill a prophesy in the forbidden Thirteenth Scroll and ensure her lover's place as the High King of Aghamore unless Lysandra, a blind healer disturbed by prophetic dreams, can stop her and save the kingdom.

Hannah Verde and her father are Jews who have escaped the Spanish Inquisition by moving to England where her father sets up his printing business. There she meets Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, who introduces her to the court of King Edward VI as a "holy" fool, because Hannah can sometimes foretell the future. She stays at court after Edward dies to serve Queen Mary I and at the same time is also accepted by her half-sister, Elizabeth. Hannah soon finds her loyalties divided and she is at the center of the intrigue to replace the Catholic Queen Mary with the Protestant Princess Elizabeth.

Discusses the nine vice-presidents of the United States who became president when the office fell suddenly vacant because of death or resignation.

With Russia on the brink of bringing back the monarchy, Atlanta lawyer Miles Lord travels to Moscow to perform a background check on the tsarist candidate favored by a powerful group of Western businessmen, but he becomes caught up in the mystery of what really happened to the family of Russia's last tsar after gunmen make an attempt on his life.

Provides an analysis of Fidel Castro and his relationship with his younger brother Raul, discussing Raul's role in Cuban government, and speculating on what type of leader he will be if and when he takes over for Fidel, and how U.S.-Cuban relations might be affected.