Captain Nathan Peake survives a ferocious battle 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 Napoleon Buonaparte. Returned to the command of the frigate Unicorn 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 and save its treasures from the invading French hordes. But Nathan has his own private agenda - to find his lost love - and as the fighting spreads from the mountains to the sea he discovers that glory comes at a higher price than all the gold in the vaults of Genoa.