Virginia, 1864... Juliet Jackson hasn't heard from her fiancé in over a year. Writing Cole off as yet another crushed dream, she is shocked when he shows up on her doorstep one chilly December night wounded and on the run. When she learns that he has been serving the Union as a spy, she does what any self-respecting southern woman should do-throws him out! But... Cole promises to be carrying information that will end the war, and Juliet is dragged into a living nightmare in which she has an epic choice to make. Help the man she once vowed to marry commit an act of espionage, or remain loyal to the cause her family has sacrificed so much for. As wartime blurs the lines of duty and loyalty can Juliet and Cole rediscover the love that had once given them hope for the future?