Publisher's Synopsis
1817: Captain Matthew Hervey has returned from India to an England in turmoil. In the 6th Light Dragoons the new commanding officer is rich, vain, arrogant and cruel. He takes an immediate dislike to Hervey who, somehow, must earn a recommendation for promotion while guarding his integrity and the loyalty of his men. Storm clouds gather as the Sixth suffer the trauma of a regimental flogging and are then sent to Canada where tension along the border with the United States is high. Hervey and his commanding officer are on a collision course, the consequences of which will be devastating...
