An exciting tale of intrigue in the Bavarian Alps, this novel takes the reader to the Grand Duchy of Bruxenstein, where lovely Francine Ewell had eloped with her suitor, Baron Rudolph, heir to the throne. Left behind was her younger sister, Pippa, who must face alone the wrath of their grandfather, autocratic master of Greystone, the boarding manor in Kent. When communication with her sister abruptly stops, Pippa sets off across Europe to seek her sister's fate, but may just also find her own.