Saint Germain travels to 17th century Rome to help Niklos in a legal dispute over the property left to him by Atta Olivia Clemens. I like Niklos, and wish there had been more of him in this novel. It's a pretty typical entry in the Saint-Germain saga: nicely detailed historical fiction that's only a slightly impacted by the fact that the protagonist is a 4000-yr-old vampire. There's a damsel in distress, as always, and Saint-Germain treads a narrow path to avoid persecution by the Church. Don't expect happy endings from one of these books, although this one is not as sad as some.