A Pocket Cardinal Edition

“Andrew Warren was an American spy sent on a desperate mission by the Continental Navy. Lovely Minga Allen was a Loyalist sympathizer, forced to flee the Colonies. For a brief moment they buried the past in each others arms. But then Minga learned that Andrew was an American officer. She knew he would stop at nothing to accomplish his mission. And when British troops came to hang him, Minga had to make a terrible choice—treason to her King or death on the gallows for the man she so passionately loved?”

As far as his father, a famous writer, is concerned, Richard will never amount to anything, and so he decides to take his fate into his own hands. But at the last moment he is saved by Jake, who appeals to Richard not to waste his life. Together they set out for adventure, working their way through Europe, eventually arriving in bohemian Paris, where Richard meets Hesta, an entrancing music student.

"The path to true love is not always straight. Edmund Bingley is trying to divorce at a time when it takes no less than an Act of Parliament and even a king can't acquire one. His brother Charlie is hopelessly in love with someone he can never marry. And the last Darcy daughter is giving her living legend of a protective father a run for his money. Can Edmund find a way out of his loveless marriage? Can the family find the missing Cassandra Darcy before it's too late? With the help of old friends, former enemies, priests, monks, Romani, American diplomats, and Tibetan lamas, they'll have to find a way. In Altman's tenth and final installment of The Darcys and the Bingleys, life has come full circle for the original clan, who has watched its children grow, make mistakes, and take responsibility for themselves."--Page 4 of cover.

Set in an unspecified country, the main character, Waltz, supposedly invents a weapon of mass destruction. In the end, this invention turns out to be a mental fantasy of Waltz and the character is institutionalized.