Port of Missing Men

Shirley Claiborne didn't believe in chance encounters until John Armitage began appearing everywhere she went across Europe. Tall, handsome, and mysteriously attentive, he follows her and her brother Captain Claiborne from Vienna to Calais. But Armitage is no ordinary admirer: he's a man with secrets written in the language of diplomatic intrigue, and the recently murdered Count von Stroebel urged him to serve Austria's interests before his life ended in a hail of assassin's bullets. Now the corrupt scheme to place the worthless Francis on the throne inches forward, orchestrated by the sinister Jules Chauvenet, who trails both Shirley and her mysterious shadow across the Atlantic toward Washington. Is Chauvenet pursuing the woman or the man? And just what is Armitage's true allegiance when every capital in Europe seems to play a different tune? This Edwardian thriller pulses with the electricity of a world on the edge of war, where identity is a mask, love complicates loyalty, and no one is quite who they claim to be.