It is 1918. As the German and Austrian empires are crumbling before the victorious armies of the allied powers, Captain Harry Phillips, British prisoner of war is offered his freedom by his German captors. To secure it he must smuggle out of Rumania a beautiful young princess whose pro-German sentiments have made her a target of socialist revolutionaries on the prowl through middle Europe.

Phillips agrees. And finds himself involved in a breathless, perilous chase across war-torn Europe with a woman too courageous to deplore, too resourceful to disregard, too beautiful to resist—and too far above him to love . . .