December 1941. On a bright Sunday morning in Hawaii, Japanese planes swoop down and attack the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbour. America enters the war and Britain no longer stands alone against Hitler. Conditions on the home front remain bleak. In a city pulverised by the Blitz, with rampant crime and corruption and overstretched police resources, life for Scotland Yard detective Frank Merlin continues as arduous as ever. In the week of Japan's aggression,...

Louis XIV of France has a twin brother, Philippe, who is as brave as the King is scurrilous. To raise money, the monarch plans to wed the Spanish Infanta, despite his continuing affair with the cunning Madame de la Valliere. In the meantime, D'Artagnan and the aging Musketeers are teaching Philippe the ways of chivalry. Soon, Louis has his twin arrested and imprisoned in the Bastille. But after the Musketeers free him, Philippe concocts a daring plot...

In 1798, fifteen-year-old Hortense de Beauharnais, Napoleon Bonaparte's stepdaughter, attends an exclusive boarding school, dreaming of her brother's fellow officer Christophe, unaware of the role she is fated to play.