Charles and Alexander Cambridge are sons of an earl with all the wealth and privilege a well-bred young lady who needs to find a husband might wish for - but the older brother Charles has returned from the Boer Wars with a terrible limp - and a temper to match it. The blonde, handsome Alexander Cambridge seems the better choice for Lady Alicia Neville, but there is something not quite right about him. Be it gambling debts or a hidden mistress, she knows he is hiding a secret, and turns to Charles as the better man. Set in London in 1901, it is a rapidly evolving world of electric lights, telephones, automobiles and that hallmark of the modern era - indoor plumbing. London is also rife with dark alleys and bodies floating in the Thames, and when there is a murder of a Cambridge family member, Alicia wonders if one of the brothers is capable of it. When the next murder occurs, she is convinced it is one of them.
In January, 1945, the Allied Armies are hunkered down in the H rtgen Valley, Germany, in the middle of a brutally cold winter. The Wehrmacht Army, recently decimated by a battle in the Ardennes, is struggling to hold back the tide of the seemingly endless Allied soldiers and equipment. Two very efficient Wehrmacht soldiers come together to achieve a most difficult and perilous task: to release the waters of the Roer River Dams, in order to stall the Allies in their push for Berlin. Major Maximilian Von Strasser, the hero of Mikelle Fraizer's Escape from Destiny, is seen in an earlier period, when he is tasked with a highly risky mission, and must work with a decorated commando who has lost his will to live.
