Rupert’s Romance Story: The Long Vendetta Between Young Rupert and Rudolph Rassendyll

The 19th century was a revolutionary period for European history and a time of great transformation in all spheres of life. Human and civil rights, democracy and nationalism, industrialization, and free-market systems, all ushered in a period of change and chance.

This book is full of humor and swashbuckling feats of heroism, the tale is also a satire on the politics of 19th-century Europe. When honor is at stake, the fight is to the death. Rudolf Rassendyll, having heroically saved the kingdom of Ruritania and nobly given up the hand of the beautiful Princess Flavia, has returned to his normal life in England. But when, three years later, Flavia, now the unhappily married Queen of Ruritania, sends him a love letter, it is stolen by the exiled villain Rupert Hentzau. Rudolf's former adversary has been waiting for the chance to have his revenge, and this provides the perfect opportunity to stir up trouble. Rudolf must return to the troubled kingdom to defeat Hentzau, where he is embroiled once more in a world of deception, intrigue, deadly swordfights, and torn loyalties. with the stakes higher than ever, will he pay the ultimate price?