Detective David Withers is called in to investigate a routine case of bathtub drowning. The deceased is James Armstrong, married to a much younger wife, Amelia. As soon as Withers arrives on the scene, he feels somethings not quite right. Maybe this drowning wasnt an accident. It might just be murder, and somehow, Amelia is involved.

Withers digs into Amelias past as well as doing his best to learn a little about James Armstrongs son, George. The deeper he digs, the stranger things get, especially when his own father tells him about a case in 1975 involving a drowned man named...

Franz Bauer is a farmer's son living on family land in Hesse Kassel when he is forced into the Prussian Army. He becomes a soldier, hired out to the British to fight American revolutionaries in the War of 1776. Trained under brutal conditions, Franz learns the art of warfare using the musket and bayonet and is taught discipline by a sadistic senior sergeant.

Training completed, Franz's company joins the Hessian Second Division and sails on a troop ship for the American Colonies. He makes unexpected friends with a British Marine private and a Navy Lieutenant. Once arrived at their...