Sinopsis

It??™s springtime in the Eternal City, 1635. But it??™s no Roman holiday for uptimer? Frank Stone and his pregnant downtime wife, Giovanna. They??™re in the clutchesof would be Pope Cardinal Borgia, with the real Pope??”Urban VII??”on the? run with the renegade embassy of uptime Ambassador Sharon Nichols and? her swashbuckling downtime husband, Ruy Sanchez de Casador y Ortiz. Up? to their necks in papal assassins, power politics, murder, and mayhem, the? uptimers and their spouses need help and they need it quickly.
Special rescue teams??”including Harry Lefferts and his infamous Wrecking? Crew??”converge on Rome to extract Frank and Gia. And an uptime airplane is? on its way to spirit the Pope to safety before Borgia??™s assassins can find him. It? seems that everything is going to work out just fine in sunny Italy.
Until, that is, everything goes wrong. Now, whether they are prisoners in Rome? or renegades protecting a pope on the run, it??™s up to the rough and ready can? do attitude of Grantville natives to once again escape the clutches of aristocratic? skullduggery and ring in freedom for a war torn land.