Lord Mortemer of Kansas, the Great Masochist, Duke of San Diego is the Duke of San Diego. But now: it''''s been captured! Mortemer will have to fight hard to get his castle back, and he''''ll have to fight the person he thought he was; a nice ruler with a nice life. With a woman whose ex could see the future, a woman who is the best damn scholar ever, and the most powerful spell reader in the world, maybe Mortemer will have a chance to uncover a great political conspiracy, stop a war that''''s slowly breeding capitalism, and bring San Diego into the future.