The Bastards' Paradise

How many lives they have lived, if only for a night!

Puppets and peril, lonely streets and glittering salons--Rupert and Istvan have played
through it all, and sought to make the road their lasting home. But that road winds
through the past--including the brothel called the Rose and Poppy--while threats and
invitations abound: a scheming social climber, a lovesick exile, the Mercury Theatre
closed . . . or is it? Old friends from afar join comrades in the here-and-now, as power,
love, and fa...