It is 1864 in the Kingdom of Hanover, North-West Germany, but not the 1864 that our world saw. Commander Wilfried Berger is charged with safeguarding the life of the visiting Prince of Wales but facing a society in which technology has advanced far quicker than it ever did in our history. Given the range of deadly weapons available to the would-be assassins, can Berger out-think the conspirators and so spare the heir to the throne of the British Empire?

This is a steampunk short story mixing actual historical figures into a fictional political conspiracy to provide adventure handling the challenges and benefits that greater industrialisation would have brought to those policing the burgeoning cities of Britain and its possessions.