He was a soldier, nothing was ever certain in that life and he never should have expected it to. But once he met her, he wanted to believe, he wanted to know that they would spend the rest of their lives together. This was his love story, should it not have a happy ending? But that was not the fate destined for him and what awaited him was far worse than he could imagine. For intersecting his story was another, one that was far long and far darker than any would imagine. If he had known what awaited... if only he had known. A story of love, money, power and the struggle of one stallion to be at his lover's side.