In the short novelThe Anastasia Syndrome,prominent historical writer Judith Chase is living in London andpreparing for her marriage to Sir Stephen Hallett, expected to becomeEngland's next Prime Minister. Orphaned during World War II, Judithwants to trace her origins. In this quest, she goes to a renownedpsychiatrist and becomes the victim of his experiments in regression.When a woman in a dark green cape sets off bombs in London, Sir Stephenand Judith are faced with an intangible, mysterious force threateningtheir very existence.Obsessive love is the subject ofTerror Stalks the Class Reunion;psychic contact with a dead twin sister is the only defense against a murder inDouble Vision; Lucky Day,compared to O. Henry'sThe Gift of the Magi,begins premonition of imminent danger; inThe Lost Angel,mother follows her intuition in a harrowing search for her missing child.