The year is 1800. France has traded the guillotine for Napoleon's rising star, but the royalists have not surrendered, they have simply changed their weapons. In the mist-shrouded mountains of the Jura, a band of young aristocrats turned highwaymen ride by night, robbing government transports to fill the coffers of the exiled monarchy. They call themselves the Companions of Jehu, and their legend has spread across a nation still bleeding from revolution. Dumas weaves a tale of impossible loyalty and doomed romance. A hero with a shrouded past must choose between his oath to the Companions and a love that could undo everything they fight for. Duel scenes crackle with tension, political intrigue thickens with each betrayal, and a tragic love story unfolds with the relentless momentum of fate itself. This is Dumas at his most operatic: swashbuckling adventure stripped to its emotional core, where conviction shades into fanaticism and every noble act courts destruction.
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