on their way home to the beach house, Griff was driving his new Black Jeep Cherokee. They had left her sky blue Volvo parked by the Huygens cottage. When they reached a meadow with only one parking place, he observed that he needed to stretch his leg.

"It's been five days without you," he murmured, as in a field of fall wildflowers, they kissed for what seemed like a blissful eternity.

"Jack's French wife, Giselle, thinks that the Book of Hours, whose provenance we are seeking, might have arrived in Italy when Charles VIII attacked Naples in 1494", Caydance said that evening during dinner on the Santa Cruz wharf.

"Charles VIII attacked Naples? Who won?” Griff asked.