Bears and Eagles

The British and Russian empires are at their apex. Germany has just formed her confederation and is vying for prominence. America has recover from her civil war and is expanding her reach.

A younger son of a minor landholder is allowed to join his Cossack band for the first time, hoping to survive the campaign. Fate has other ideas and he finds himself thrust into world events he never knew existed. Bartered from one soveriegn to another for a favour and thrust into a life he never imagined.

A chance meeting on a lonely country road propels him on a life's journey, meeting his true love and finding out that little is as it seems.