and use him as a puppet king under her rule. Jasper’s job is to find the kid and get both Toni and her daughter out of the country.īut guess what! Toni is also working with Flavia, the fiancée of Rudolf E., to permanently replace Rudolf E. Toni wants to escape from Michael but first she has to find her daughter. However, Jasper has actually taken the job as a favor to Antoinette, who is known to Jasper (and henceforth to us) as ‘Toni.’ Jasper owes Toni a favor due to her helping him out some years ago. In addition to preventing Michael’s half-brother from becoming king, Jasper is also supposed to stop Michael’s abused mistress Antoinette from running away from Michael, who has also stolen Antoinette’s baby daughter to hold as a hostage against Antoinette’s ‘good behavior.’ The baby is hidden with an unknown family in an unknown location.
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back to Michael’s castle and lock him up while everyone tries to figure out how to handle the doppelganger who is now running around calling himself the King.Īnd now for a word from our double-crossers. is unconscious and has been replaced by a doppelganger named Rudolf Rassendyll (Rudolf R.). However, when the henchmen go to follow up on the action, they discover that Rudolf E. This, Michael believes, will lead to an uprising that will unseat Rudolf E., leaving the throne to Michael. will embarrass himself at the coronation. Michael concocts a plan to drug Rudolf E. We’ll get back to Jasper and Antoinette in a minute. While Michael sneers at Jasper, he also puts Jasper in charge of guarding Michael’s mistress, Antoinette, figuring that Jasper will be immune to her womanly wiles. The book is narrated by one of the henchmen, Jasper, who is gay. Michael hires henchmen to hang out with him and await developments. As the king ages, the country waits to hear which of the brothers will be made king. His half-brother Michael (a Duke) is a horrible person who commits his various crimes and misdemeanors in private. The prince of Ruritania, Rudolf Elphberg (hereafter referred to as Rudolf E.) is a horrible person who commits his various crimes and misdemeanors in public. The names and the basic premise are from A Prisoner of Zenda. On the way to the ending there is swashbuckling, double and triple crossing, intrigue, a moat, a castle, smart women, and hot sex. It looks like a m/m romance, and to a certain degree it is, but it has a more unconventional ending than most romances (I’ll address that in more detail later). Charles outdoes herself with The Henchmen of Zenda, a retelling of the 1894 pulp classic The Prisoner of Zenda from a secondary character’s point of view. Genre: Historical: European, LGBTQIA, Romance
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