Courage — Robert Carter

France, 1790 �" a nation on the eve of destruction. Britain �" rising world power. A Frenchwoman destined for the guillotine. An English naval captain who has loved and lost her. The astonishing Brotherhood that shapes the future of the world.

These are the ingredients of Courage. Full of intrigue, drama and adventure, larger-than-life passions and the clash or war, Courage is set during the French Revolution as Napoleon Bonaparte prepares to stride out onto the stage of history. Captain Sidney Smith, a naval captain, falls in love with a young French aristocrat, but when her family is overwhelmed by the Revolution he must make a choice. Courage tells the tale of a man and woman whose forbidden romance sustains them through the terrors of war, and whose faith in one another finally overcomes all.

Courage is a love story of escape and rescue, and the main sustaining force in the novel is the love that exists between Captain Smith and Berenice de Sainte Honorine du Fay, niece of the Duc d'Harcourt . They are besotted by one another in an instant that can only be called “love at first sight.” She throws all caution to the winds, but then is told that the charismatic young captain took her to bed on a wager. She is appalled. She has been taken for a fool. But the reality is that he has fallen for her, he has made a real connection with her and is intent on resolving the misunderstanding , but then their two countries return to war ...