France, 1790. A nation rushes towards destruction; Napoleon Bonaparte prepares to stride onto the stage of history; the Brotherhood shape their vast design for the world's future.

On a mission to France, Captain Sidney Smith of the Royal Navy meets and loves Berenice de Sainte Honorine du Fay. But as the escalating Terror engulfs Berenice's family, so the tide of war sweeps Smith to far shores and turbulent waters...

Courage is an epic of intrigue and drama, of larger-than-life passions and the tumult of war. And of the storm-tossed passage of a man and a woman through the maelstrom.