Mary Roberts Rinehart, who reported the Great War from the Belgian front, brings a clear and unsentimental eye to this romance of a small Central European kingdom on the edge of change. Its hero is a ten-year-old crown prince, hedged about by protocol and starved of ordinary boyhood, who one day slips out of the palace alone — while a republican conspiracy, a spirited American girl, and a clear-eyed chancellor decide the fate of his throne. This edition presents Rinehart's complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates.