Daniel O'Brien is the master carver of carousel horses and he has just returned home after the Civil War has ended to a complex web of love, sex, broken friendship, and deception. Daniel is drawn to Eirinn McKevett, the daughter of his best friend, a woman he must by all accounts not love. But Eirinn loves Daniel and she will not let him ignore his burning feelings for her so easily. As Eirinn seduced and Daniel gladly submitted, the world grew dark and threatening around the passionate lovers. Soon they were torn away but their love and sexual yearnings for each other would always remain even when the world was dashed around them and they became the worst of enemies.