Louise Cooper

The Borgia-like intrigues of Iselia Darrow, anagent of Order, after her capture by the forces of Chaos. Unusually, the novel presents the two states as neithergood nor bad, but as the yin and yang of life.

When an honest teenage boy is forced on the run with Black Jack, adventure and mishap are never far away, When the two enter a world of body-snatchers, private lunatic asylums and traveling fairs they find friendship in the most unlikely places.