Tenacious and daring, newspaperwoman Irene Kelly will brave any danger to track down a good story. But this time the story is stalking her.

A letter from "Thanatos" reaches Irene's desk—a cryptic message prophesying the death of "Clio," the muse of History. But what seems a prank at first turns deadly serious when a history professor is brutally slain. And Irene soon realizes that a killer with a classical bent is using riddles to lure her into an inescapable labryrinth of terror—where the dedicated reporter must untangle the twisted roots of a maniac's rage...or die like all the others.