Book one in 'The Forty-Eighters' series.

In the spring of 1848, when the German Confederation declares the unfinished fortress at Rastatt operational, Bernhard Zimmer—once-widowed and twice-wed—must overcome his fear of loss to protect his family before his wife is arrested for treason and his son, a lieutenant in the German Federal Army, defends the Rhine border from a rumored French invasion.