Captain Nathan Peake survives a ferocious battle on the treacherous seas off Brittany, only to be cast into the even more dangerous waters of post-Revolutionary Paris. There he encounters two of the most beautiful and scandalous courtesans in history - and an ambitious Corsican adventurer otherwise known as Napoleone Buonaparte. Nathan is sent to join another young glory-seeker, Captain Horatio Nelson, in a bid to wreck Buonaparte's plans for the invasion of Italy. But Nathan has his own private agenda - to find love amid the chaos of war.