The battle of Waterloo is considered to be one of the most decisive military engagements in history. In this exciting novel we are confronted by two towering adversaries; Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington. The first seeks to regain his past glory, while the second is determined to do away with his enemy, sending him into permanent exile or perhaps even to his death. But there are other characters involved in this titanic struggle, specifically two cavalry officers, the Englishman, Jeffrey Fairfax, and his opposite, Christian Dentremont of France. Their two lives are mysteriously intertwined and they come face to face, not once but twice, on the field of Waterloo. Beside them stand the women they love and the men who are their companions in battle. This sweeping epic takes the reader from the horrors of the French Revolution to the opulence and decadence of early 19th century London to Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia and finally to the battleground of Waterloo. Although the book is written on a grand scale, it never loses sight of the individual stories; the lives of the men and women swept up in these turbulent events.