Bittersweet

In the British army of 1872, corrupt young officers play games of a different kind. Their favourite is to rape young society women in their homes. The rogues make a competition out of it. The more girls the regiment savages the greater their merriment and cheers for the winning regiment.

But the victims go through hell. They can't tell anyone, not even their mothers and suffer the social shame. Their families suffer too. Banker Bryce Ackerman loses the love of his life to the scoundrels, and he is set on revenge. He follows the thugs to India, where two of the marauding regiments are posted.

Trying to run the rapists to ground, he learns their treachery is deadly and their evil courage more monstrous than he expected. Along the way, he must confront his own sexuality. Is he a gentleman always, or is he too a predator?

Life in the British Raj in Colonial India heighten all his senses, good and bad, as he chases down the brutal and dark side of manhood, and tries to bring Justice to places where Justice had been absent.

For those concerned about rape scenes this is the comment form one of my Beta and ARC readers

I didn't know how I would go knowing there were rapes, so I started off tentatively. Then I found the story unfolded in an interesting and sensitive way, and I liked that we didn't get the full impact of the rapes all at once, but that they were told as reflections, or from the victims' experiences. I was soon absorbed and wondering how it would unfold! All the time I thought Bryce would go back to his Aimee, but I was not disappointed with the ending! I loved the way he worked through his angst and fought to maintain his values and self respect when faced with the power of attraction.

The search for justice and being conscious of his own motives and failings was the best thing he could have done to become a whole person. You are a gifted storyteller and had me interested right to the end! Some bits read like it was a movie, in that the scenes changed very quickly, but it lost nothing. If it was a TV series it could have gone on and on! A satisfying story!