The Mills of God

About the Book

``I was twelve when I first realized I was a ghost.´´

So says Constance Fairchild --- an eccentric poetess who is heiress to the largest fortune on Earth. And a girl who, from an early age, has believed that she had been reincarnated.

Orphaned at the age of 14, when her parents die under suspicious circumstances, she is sent to a boarding school in Switzerland, a place that had haunted her dreams. Here, she makes her first real friends and stumbles on clues to her past life.

When several of her friends die under strange circumstances, Constance has reason to believe that her legal guardian may be responsible. These murders, she also learns, are part of a vast conspiracy whose agents hunt her through the streets of Munich and London.

This conspiracy spans two lifetimes --- and involves virtual reality, cryptography, and the Internet. It threatens to destroy everyone Constance knows and loves.

With the help of her friends, Constance manages to expose the conspirators and turn their tools against them. And, by the novel´s end, she solves the greatest mystery of all: Her reason for being.

About the Author

Justin Smith grew up in New York City and attended the Bronx High School of Science and Hunter College. He currently lives in a suburb of Philadelphia with his wife Brigitte and their two cats, Gus and Walter. When he isn't writing, he enjoys wine-making and doing his ``day job'' as a professor of mathematics and computer science.