Detty is enjoying a quiet life with her baby, Niki junior. Whilst on maternity leave, she accepts an invitation to sing Leonore in Beethoven’s Fidelio in Budapest. Her last-minute substitute partner, Viktor, is vocally great and she asks him back to Koenigshof to sing the unfulfilled role of Walther, in the new production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger. Viktor fits well into the role of Walther but worries Detty when he successfully seduces a willing Mara. Detty has doubts about Mara and Viktor’s relationship and foresees problems, is he all he claims to be? She is however, pre-occupied with directing the immense and difficult Die Meistersinger which is made easier when a choreographer from Berlin and a famous bass baritone become unexpectedly available. Detty receives a letter from a couple, Alexandra and Jurgen, who were abused by the Travsky fascists and are looking for their missing daughter. But the arrival of an apparently innocent blind nun causes further problems for her and dangers the new-found free republic of Livonia. Ruhe is book four of the captivating adventure thriller in the Livonia Saga series.
