Harold Covington is the wealthy and proud master of Kingsman's Wood, a fifteen-hundred acre plantation in the fertile red hills of antebellum Florida. How and why Harold became wealthy are secrets that he ruthlessly guards at the expense of all else. To all things there is a cost, and the cost to maintain these secrets has driven Harold's wife, Mariah, to madness. Now these secrets are forcing his illegitimate son, Jessup, to question his own memories and pushing his grown daughter, Elizabeth, to find the truth in order to save them all. But as the Civil War escalates and their lives unravel, Elizabeth and Jessup must first overcome their fear of the consequences. The more Elizabeth and Jessup discover, the more they learn that there will be a cost to lift the curse of Kingsman's Wood.