Confined by the alien Sylph to the surface of Earth mankind has lost the power of flight. Can one woman use her knowledge and skill to overcome human politics and alien indifference to regain the skies?

A private investigator gets in over her head when her newest clients turn out to be a family of Grim Reapers looking to track down the human who murdered one of their own and upset the natural balance of the world.

In the aftermath of a small-town massacre, Venus McKenzie and her friends each try to deal with the fallout in their own way, not knowing that they are being pulled in the same direction: towards the pulpit of the Church of the Sandmen.