Summary
A deposed monarch slips across Atlantic fogbanks, clutching nothing but exile and an unspoken dread; his ambulance-driving niece, Countess Therese, hurtles through French shellfire, her ambulance headlights carving white scars across no-man’s-land, unaware that a telegram from the uncle she thought executed now summons her to a salt-whitened Maine village with a crown’s ransom in sapphires and guilt. Enter the jewel thief—lacquered tuxedo under a peacoat, smile like a switchblade—who barters with the pretender: deliver the girl, pocket the gems. What follows is a moonlit relay of disguises, Model-T chases down granite carriage roads, and ballroom duplicity inside a wooden hotel where waltzes echo like conspiracy. By the time the tide rasps against pilings, Therese must decide whether legitimacy can be worn like diamonds or if sovereignty is merely the art of refusing to be traded.
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Prince Sebastian of Lurania is forced to go into hiding when German forces invade his country. His niece, Countess Therese, is an ambulance driver with the French army, and one day she hears from her uncle, who requests that she meet him in a small town in Maine and bring the crown jewels with her. Unfortunately, a jewel thief finds out about the meeting and makes a deal with the Luranian pretender to the throne: he will steal the jewels and he can keep them if he kidnaps and turns over the Countess to the usurper.
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