ampaging through town, sending the population into a frenzy. It seemed as if everyone was sliding down an unpredictable slope of speculation into a puddle of doom. Division reigned as many endorsed seceding from the Union while others stood firmly on the side of preserving the country formed less than a century earlier. The only thing Maggie wanted was peace.

Maggie Daniel's world is exploding as the civil war nears her beloved home, Rose Hall Plantation in Bluffton, South Carolina. After serving on the Underground Railroad for years with her husband Seth and their friend Elora Polk, the trio, and their families, are forced northward where they face difficult choices about what to do during the bloodiest conflict they've ever faced. Will their decisions lead to victory or cost them their lives?