From the jacket: This novel of conflicting loyalties is based on an exciting, mysterious, and still unsolved episode in French-American history. The time is that of the French Revolution. the story that of a group of passionately loyal aristocrats who plot to rescue Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, and the Dauphin, their son, from imprisonment in Paris, and to bring them to a Pennsylvania colony - fittingly named Asylum until they can return to France...