The Prince Lost to Time (A Nicholas Segalla Time-Travel Mystery)

vii, 229 pp. "In this second mystery in the series featuring the time-traveling scholar Nicholas Segalla, the sleuth uncovers the mysterious fate of the lost dauphin, Louis Charles, the young son Queen Marie Antoinette left behind when she was forced to mount the scaffold in 1793. As the flames of revolution spread through France, they quickly engulfed the Royal Family, whose fairy-tale life in the magnificent palace of Versailles was shattered during the violent and bloody Reign of Terror. First to face the executioner was King Louis XVI, followed nine months later by his beautiful queen, the passionate Marie Antoinette. Several months before her death, her young son and heir to the throne was torn from her arms, disappearing into the annals of history. Although many presumed him dead, legends sprang up about the boy who would be king - did he die' If not, what happened to him' To keep his promise to the doomed queen, Segalla braves treachery to find the answer."