Two years later, Mindspell was written to centre on the conflict between science versus religion, with Nolte Smith stating this fiction was written "to challenge strongly the belief in the occult". In 1985, just a year after her third novel, Elegy for a Soprano was written as a roman a clef inspired by Rand, Nathaniel Branden, and the circle around them. Elegy for a Soprano also portrays the life of Jewish Holocaust survivors from Czechoslovakia and Norway.
Two years later, Mindspell was written to focus on the conflict between science and religion, with Nolte Smith stating that this fiction was intended "to challenge strongly the belief in the occult". In 1985, just a year after her third novel, Elegy for a Soprano was written as a roman a clef inspired by Rand, Nathaniel Branden, and the circle around them. Elegy for a Soprano also portrays the lives of Jewish Holocaust survivors from Czechoslovakia and Norway.