Courage

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 and drama, larger-than-life passions and the clash of war, Courage is set during the French Revolution, as Napoleon Bonaparte prepares to stride out for the first time onto the stage of history. Captain Sidney Smith falls in love with a young French aristocrat, but when her family is overwhelmed by the Revolution he must make a choice.

Robert Carter’s third novel is an epic that charts the course of a vast design intended to change the world for good. It tells the tale of a man and woman whose forbidden love sustains them through the terrors of war, and whose faith in one another finally overcomes all.