Amidst the swamps of Louisiana, a soldier’s redemption collides with a city’s fate.
In the waning days of the War of 1812, Marcel Moreau, a wounded veteran of Napoleon’s Grand Army, arrives in New Orleans, a city on the brink of invasion. Tasked with finding Celeste de Beaumais, a young aristocrat who has abandoned her privileged world for the sprawling plantations of Louisiana, Moreau is drawn into a tangled web of danger, betrayal, and revolution.
With an English fleet looming, the city’s desperate defenders—Creole farmers, American militias, and the notorious pirates of Jean Lafitte—turn to Moreau’s battlefield expertise. But as he prepares them for war, another battle brews in the shadows: a ruthless plantation master seeks to reclaim those who have escaped his tyranny, and Moreau must decide where his true allegiance lies.
With peril in the swamps, treachery in the streets, and war at the city’s doorstep, Moreau’s journey will test his courage, his loyalty, and the cost of freedom itself.