A Million in the Air

Young Mae went to Nice with a heavy heart: she had to mend relations between her parents and her fabulously wealthy grandmother. Hardly settling into the home of a fussy elderly lady, the girl discovered a bloodied knife in her suitcase…

Unable to stop thinking about this frightening find, Mae turned to help from her recent neighbor in the compartment—a baroness, Amalia Corf. She didn’t know: Amalia was a former secret agent of the Russian emperor. The baroness had already left the special service, but the story about the knife took her by great interest: the weapon was there—but there were no murders! Amalia suspected that someone wanted to plant the evidence not on the fellow passenger, but on herself—yet they got the suitcases mixed up. Which meant it was still too early to walk away from things…