Clementina

In 1719, a seventeen-year-old Polish princess is kidnapped mid-journey across Europe, held prisoner by the Holy Roman Emperor at the behest of England's Protestant king. The marriage she was traveling to secure would unite the Catholic claimant to the British throne with the granddaughter of a celebrated Polish warrior-king, and her enemies feared what heirs this union might produce. Into this dangerous game steps Charles Wogan, an Irish soldier of fortune already marked for death in Protestant England, accused of High Treason and reduced to shadows and false names. Wogan must infiltrate the Emperor's court, outmaneuver spies, and smuggle a royal bride through hostile territory or lose his life to the noose that awaits him. What begins as a political rescue mission becomes something more complicated: a test of honor under impossible circumstances, where every ally might be a betrayer and the price of failure is execution. Mason constructs his adventure with the precision of a chess master, layering palace intrigue with genuine emotional stakes.