In The Last of All Possible Worlds , royalty, bankers, lovers, and wives intertwine to create a vivid portrait of Europe in the early 1900s. We meet wise and worldly Prince Sobieski, Viennas ambassador in London, his enchanting wife, her English lover, and her enigmatic lifelong companion, Josefa. When Sobieskis illegitimate daughter makes a demand of her influential father, the unspoken rules of the family are challenged. Sobieskis world is further upset when two powerful merchant bankers, the tragic McGregor Hinton and the ambitious Julius von Mosenthal, arrive in Londonboth with their own requirements of the prince. The Temptation to Do Good tells the story of Father Heinz Zimmerman, the well-regarded president of an American Catholic university. When he attempts to help a chemistry teacher who has been denied tenure, he accidentally opens the door to the underlying tensions in the university.