Description: Lisa A. Barnett and Melissa Scott made their reputation with The Armor of Light, and enhanced it with Point of Hopes. Now, in trade paperback, Point of Dreams takes us back to the city of Astreiant, in a late Renaissance world where magic works. A drowned body found on stage where "The Drowned Island" is playing is just the start of an investigation for Pointsman Nicholas Rathe and his lover, Lt. Philip Eslingen. More murders follow, perhaps related to the politically important masque that is to play on that same stage. Rathe's work is complicated by the season -- for at the ghost-tide the spirits of the dead haunt the city -- and by the loss of Philip's job, which forces him to move in with Rathe. Mystery, political intrigue, floral magic, astrology, and romance -- both theatrical and personal -- combine to make this a compelling read.

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