Glory Beckons

Jean Baveystock

Type: ARC
Genre: Historical fiction
Word count: 88,000

A fast-moving historical epic. A heroic French Marshal, an idiosyncratic English General, and an Etonian playboy are fated to meet during the Napoleonic Wars. From the frozen wastes of Eastern Europe, the searing heat of the Peninsula to French boudoirs. Based on real events, Ney, Wilson and Bruce are the bravest of the brave, in bedchambers and on battlefields.

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Battles, Boudoirs & Bedsports. Glory Beckons, the first of a two part series Three men in a war, is set against the tumultuous backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars inspired by real events. This action-packed character driven epic follows three very different men whose lives become entwined from the moment Napoleon crowns himself Emperor, to the eve of the Russian campaign.

Michel Ney: Napoleon’s Bravest of the Brave, legendary Marshal of France, with a fiery mistress who follows him through the chaos of war – while harbouring a secret that could bring down the Emperor himself.

Sir Robert Wilson: A sharp-elbowed British General and diplomat, whose relentless hatred of Napoleon fuels a dangerous ambition to kill him.

Michael Bruce: A dissolute Etonian playboy. Plucked from the erotic pleasures of the Grand Tour, thrown unwittingly into Europe’s greatest conflict.

The fate of Europe is at stake, as well as love, honour and survival, but above all Glory. All dictated by the insatiable ambition, iconoclasm and ego of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Jean Baveystock brings a wealth of historical insight to her fiction. She does all her own research. A seasoned Vintner with years spent traversing Franc and Spain – the very landscapes of her novels- her original inspiration stemmed from a rare bookshop find and a serendipitous meeting with one of the world’s foremost authority on Napoleon. Today she resides in Hampshire with her extensive Napoleonic library and three working Golden Retrievers.

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