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“I can’t believe I’m actually proposing to commit a felony in order to prove I’m not a prince.”

“It does sound weird,” Serena admitted.

“It’s the stuff of comic opera. Ordinary man on the street is suddenly informed he’s a prince. He quite naturally denies it. Then his mother informs him she has been kidnapped, and a dubious figure from the local consulate of the country involved confirms it. Ordinary-man-slash-prince knows better. Neither is he a prince, nor has his conniving mother really been kidnapped. But in order to save this flyspeck of a country buried in the Pyrenees, said ordinary man must now break in to a museum to discover who the real prince is.”

“If I were an editor, I’m not sure I’d buy the book.” Serena was laughing silently, her eyes dancing.

Darius laughed with her, aloud. “This is sheer insanity.”

“I know it is. But I love insanity.”