The setup is irresistible: a man dismissed after two decades of drudgery, suddenly free at last. Edward Povey has spent twenty-two years in the basement of a shipping company, copying letters by lantern light, and now he faces the empty rest of his life. But fate has other plans. When he takes a caretaker position at his former employer's cottage, he stumbles into something far stranger than the mundane existence he has known: a young woman who claims to be a princess of an obscure European kingdom, driven into exile by the man who murdered her parents. What follows is a rollicking adventure through passport forgeries, midnight escapes, and dangerous secrets, all seen through the bemused eyes of a man who never expected his life to contain anything more than ledgers and routine. The Princess Galva is a story about second chances and the unexpected paths that lead to them, a romantic adventure that proves you are never too old, or too ordinary, to stumble into your own extraordinary story.
