Episode 1

S1 E1: In 1815, with Brussels on the brink of conflict, 18-year-old Sophia Trenchard secures her humble family invitations to the now-legendary Duchess of Richmond's ball on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo. She hopes for a secret assignation with her forbidden lover, the aristocratic Edmund Bellasis. As war dawns, the pair are torn apart and Sophia is left to conceal a devastating secret. Twenty-six years later, a chance encounter between the two families re-ignites a long-buried connection.