Set in 1815, book three of the Highland Whisky Kings tells the tale of the youngest King brother, Niven. He falls in love with the daughter of a duke, but her family is determined she will never marry a commoner. Willow and Niven's plans to elope are thwarted by her brothers. Officers in the British Army, they kidnap Niven and take him to Flanders when they leave to fight in the campaign against Napoleon's renewed ambitions to conquer Europe.