Lucy Bergmann accompanies her husband, a revered scientist, to a conference in Cairo where he is to present evidence of extraterrestrial life, but events take an unexpected turn when he dies and she is involved in a plane crash that unites her with Adam, an injured, delusional American soldier, who makes her his Eve.

Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public of arenas-eager to be a good wife and strong queen-she warmly embraces her adopted nation and its citizens. She shows her new husband nothing but love and encouragement, though he repeatedly fails to consummate...