Douglas Tyrrell, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat fighting for Britain, leading his Irish regiment against the Germans on the bloody battlefields of World War I... Pamela, his beautiful English wife, whose fierce loyalty leads her to defy not only her own people but the Crown itself... Jane, Douglas' fiery sister, caught up in a passionate affair that plunges her into a world of explosive violence against the English... and Daniel Curry, Jane's lover, the dashing Irish actor and revolutionary plotting Ireland's bloodstained rebellion.