For Tarleton Brown, all is lost during the Revolutionary War. His family is brutally ripped from his embrace and he loses himself even further as his soul is slowly dimmed to darkness. As Tarleton stands upon the ashy remains of his father's once proud, untouched grave, he senses calmness in the thought of joining those into death's eternal embrace. However, his exhausted mind still clings to a distant image of a woman whom he desires more than death. A member of British nobility, this woman knows struggles far beyond her seeming reality. She is imprisoned in a world intertwined with bloodshed and moral battles of the flesh. Tarleton has nothing left but the growing desire to save the one person he still can. He finds himself immediately engaged in overwhelming opposition as an onslaught of political troops and enemies plague his journey to try to destroy him before he reaches his love and his unlikely destiny at Cooper's Mansion.
