The story of Anastasia Lafayette, the daughter of Colonial America's great friend, reveals a beautiful girl, courageous in the pattern of her father, and a love that needed a revolution to make it possible.

With Frenchmen rioting in the streets of Paris against a lax and selfish monarchy, the Lafayettes are torn between their loyalty to the King and a deep love of freedom and human dignity. But France is gripped by the Reign of Terror and there is no longer a place for the remaining noblesse who respect freedom.

Although Anastasia has reached the age of marriage, she must follow the destiny of her father during her country's hour of crisis. The King of France is a prisoner in his own palace and the great Lafayette is confined in the prison of Olmütz in Austria by the Emperor. Anastasia, her sister and her mother decide to make the dangerous trip to Austria so that they may be with the man who was once the hero of America and France. And young Charles de Maubourg begins his brave and patient attempts to restore the Lafayette family to freedom.

With little hope to sustain her, Anastasia's loyalty and faithfulness prove to be stronger than prison walls. Out of privation and hardship there grows a mature love where no love was thought possible; and out of defeat a promise of victory.

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