Two Southerners thrown together by the Union army. He's on a quest for vengeance. She's determined to preserve her family. Lydia Gibson's life is overturned when the Union Army invades her hometown and burns down the cotton mill where she and her stepdaughter worked. Even worse, she and the other workers are arrested and sent to Marietta, where they wait for the army to send them north. Confederate Sergeant Seth Morgan finally reaches Marietta to check on his family, but the last thing he expects is to meet a woman who sparks attraction he thought he'd never feel again. Unfortunately, she's a Yankee prisoner and being sent north to Louisville, Kentucky. Seth is forced to return to his unit in Virginia, and he never anticipated their next meeting would be when he's taken to Louisville as a prisoner.

While Seth searches the Confederate ranks for the man who murdered his wife, Lydia implores him to ask after her missing nephew. Neither one expects just how far the search will take them, or what they'll discover along the way.