Nunquam Rare is leading a covert operation

is leading a covert operation when she discovers that her boss is involved in espionage

But times are changing

Stoneythorpe Hall has become an empty shell with no servants to ensure its upkeep

and xenophobia is rife between the Austrians who control the area and the Italian locals

Nunquam Rare is leading a covert operationEssef The bizarre tale of a scientific corporation and its most ambitious undertaking: the creation of a woman. The brilliant scientist, Felix Charlock, is summoned from a madhouse with the assignment to help create an exact, functioning duplicate of Lolanthe, the famous movie star, now dead, with whom Julian Merlin, chief of the firm, is deeply obsessed.