The Ridge of Waterloo

A French officer is hiding in your barn. The British patrol is thirty paces away.

You are the daughter of a tenant farmer at a small farm near Mont-Saint-Jean. Night has fallen over the fields of Waterloo; the cannon have fallen silent beyond the ridge, and cold rain sweeps the road where British patrols carry their lanterns. In your hay barn, you find Captain Étienne Laurent, a French hussar cut off from his retreating regiment, soaked, exhausted and hunted. To the soldiers on the road, Étienne is the enemy, a Bonapartist officer to be marched off as a prisoner. To you, he is the man whose hand you hold in the dark, bound by an affection that grows with every hour you keep him hidden. Every footstep outside the barn could ruin your whole family. As rumors spread of a counterfactual turn in the battle, a timeline where the French imperial line did not shatter, you must choose between your family's safety and devotion to the officer who holds your heart. One misstep will tear your world apart.