Hortense Beauharnais finds herself rubbing shoulders with royalty as her motherremarries to become Napoleon Bonapartes wife. As Napoleon struggles for poweron t... » 

Hortense Beauharnais finds herself rubbing shoulders with royalty as her motherremarries to become Napoleon Bonapartes wife. As Napoleon struggles for poweron the battlefields of Europe so Hortense charts her way through the Frenchcourt a chessboard world where the motives are jealousy and greed and theprizes are thrones of conquered countries. Despite attempts to retain herindividuality Hortense finds herself married to Napoleons brother Louis buther heart is with Charles de Flahaut a gallant young officer. Unwilling tocross her stepfather Hortense must wait and see if time will take her to herlover. «