Around 70 B.C., a tradeship that was heading for Rome foundered off the coast of Antikythera. On board was the most sophisticated device known to the classical world: The Antikythera Mechanism - a set of gears that might foretell the ways of the stars.
In the sea, the Antikythera Mechanism escaped the strike that destroyed all its siblings a hundred years later. Save for one: The OPUS GEMINI. The last of the Opera is held by young Adrianus and Valeriana, two quarrelsome housemates at the rim of the Roman world.
There comes a time of crisis, of warfare. And the ancient power that once ruled the Opus rises again. Two agents of the lost realm of Commagene set forth to retrieve the OPUS GEMINI - whatever the price: Pernica the Swift, also known as the Polan Panthercat, a woman who has always one more blade hidden. And Sedigitus the Sixfinger, he who only laughs when he has felled his next opponent.
But another force is also gathering. The mysterious Headhunters are out, and they take more than just the heads of people. Adrianus and Valeriana are pursued by two enemies at once, both determined to possess the Codebook of the Cosmos. And the only man who knows how to use it.
In the sea, the Antikythera Mechanism escaped the strike that destroyed all its siblings a hundred years later. Save for one: The OPUS GEMINI. The last of the Opera is held by young Adrianus and Valeriana, two quarrelsome housemates at the rim of the Roman world.
There comes a time of crisis, of warfare. And the ancient power that once ruled the Opus rises again. Two agents of the lost realm of Commagene set forth to retrieve the OPUS GEMINI - whatever the price: Pernica the Swift, also known as the Polan Panthercat, a woman who has always one more blade hidden. And Sedigitus the Sixfinger, he who only laughs when he has felled his next opponent.
But another force is also gathering. The mysterious Headhunters are out, and they take more than just the heads of people. Adrianus and Valeriana are pursued by two enemies at once, both determined to possess the Codebook of the Cosmos. And the only man who knows how to use it.
