Mary Lou Bryant is the youngest daughter of a moderate antebellum family. As the Civil War rages around her, she runs away from home to rescue her fiance from certain death in a Yankee prison only to find herself prisoner to the man whose mission it was to kill her fiance. Jebidiah Waters is ordered to kill one of the South's most notorious spy's, Tristan Lawrence. But his own beliefs are challenged by his targets fiance. She is beautiful, enchanting and rumored to be a spy as well. Duty demands that she hang, but Jeb's heart finds itself tangled in a web of secrecy, love and vengeance. This road to home can destroy or save them all.