When Chris McCabe agrees to travel to an alternate dimension to impersonate Duke Christian Lattimore, in order to prevent Christian’s death, the last thing he expects is to be greeted by the duke’s corpse. Nor is he ready for Christian’s widow, Helen. Helen is not ready for Chris, either. While Chris prepares for the acting job of his life, she and Prince Robert Claybourne quickly learn that Chris’s resemblance to Christian is only skin-deep. With Chris’s colleague Elijah Homes, the three of them search for clues both Magical and mundane to solve the duke’s death, and unexpected friendships, and more, develop.  One larger question remains – is Christian’s death the one foreseen by Bishop Edward Fitzroy when he originally proposed the masquerade to Chris? Or is there another threat to the duke?