1794

Part two of the acclaimed noir trilogy beginning in 1793, 1794 presents an ingenious web of deception, revenge and merciless crimes against the backdrop of bustling Stockholm immersed in the maelstrom of the French Revolution. Second son of the wealthy Tres Rosas family, Erik is sent by his father to the colony of San Bartolomé, the largest slave market in the world, in the Antilles, to separate him from Linnea Charlotta, a girl of humble extraction with whom he has been sworn everlasting love. Exiled to the Caribbean island, the boy finds himself absorbed in adapting to such a brutal environment when the sudden deaths of his father and his first-born brother precipitate his return to Sweden. So suddenly the heir to an immense fortune and free to marry his beloved Linnea Charlotta, happiness seems to smile at him when another cruel twist of fate throws him back into darkness: accused of a heinous crime that occurred during the same Wedding night, Erik's life is left in the hands of the ineffable Mickel Cardell, the sullen war veteran who, now accompanied by Emil Winge, little brother and alter ego of the late Cecil, will enter the darkest and most violent abysses of society. Swede to try to discover the truth and free Erik from a dire future.