Marseille, 1815. Edmond Dantès, nineteen, is about to become captain of the Pharaon and marry Mercédès when soldiers break up the wedding feast. An anonymous letter calls him a Bonapartist agent, and that night, without a trial, he is rowed across the black water to the fortress of the Château d'If. Six years later, buried alive in Cell 34, he hears a faint scratching behind the wall. A sweeping Romantic adventure of betrayal, patience and the hunger for justice.