It's springtime in the Eternal City, 1635. But it's no Romanholiday for uptimer Frank Stone and his pregnant downtime wife, Giovanna.They're in the clutches of would-be Pope Cardinal Borgia, with the realPope -- Urban VII -- on the run with the renegade embassy of uptimeAmbassador Sharon Nichols and her swashbuckling downtime husband, Ruy Sanchez deCasador y Ortiz. Up to their necks in papal assassins, power politics, murder,and mayhem, the uptimers and their spouses need help and they need itquickly!