In The Omega Crystal, Geoff Lance was the top-rated television anchor in Sacramento, but he was getting weary of the struggle with his bosses over their dumbing down of the news. His life took a sudden turn when he met an aging French physicist who told him he had a solution to the energy crisis. But then the man died under mysterious circumstances. At his funeral, Geoff met his daughter, Ariane Chevasse, a brilliant woman working in international intelligence. The two collaborated to expose a conspiracy by the oil importers. In New Moves, Geoff and Ariane had moved to the Monterey Peninsula, where Ariane had made an important new friend while training in aikido. The two women unwittingly found themselves caught up in the middle of a conflict between federal law enforcement and a Mexican drug cartel. Geoff's father, through his own sources, learned of the conflict and flew out to Monterey to make sure that his son and Ariane weren't in danger. At the same time, Ariane and her new friend were going through new aikido moves, and Geoff was conducting a powerful interview with his father to try to move past rocky issues between them.