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He calls himself The King. Once a respected professor, he was ruined by scandal. Now, he rules his own “country”—an area of western territory where an army of outlaws enforce his laws. Any town he claims as his own must pay “taxes,” collected from bank, stagecoach, and train robberies. When he learns that President Rutherford B. Hayes and General William Tecumseh Sherman are venturing into the far west on a tour of the nation, The King devises a plan to kidnap America’s leaders and expand his empire.

A young woman, Sophia, awakes in her new apartment. Intrigued by her grande dame of a landlady and her enigmatic, rebellious son Dieter and excited to be finally independent, life seems full of possibility. Her boss has given her new responsibilities; Dieter appears as interested in her as she...