Upon discovering her father, a Union doctor, is ill and imprisoned in Virginia's infamous Libby Prison, Barbara Thackery is determined to travel south from Ohio to bring him the medicine he needs. Her attempt to catch a train, however, results in her being hauled into a boxcar by Rebel prisoner Trevor Ishmael Sandoe, a Confederate officer who escaped from the stockade on Johnson Island, just offshore from her home. Attraction and rejection flare on both sides as Barbara and Trevor must join forces, since their goal is the same--to reach Richmond. One dangerous obstacle after another rises to impede their journey. But when they finally reach their destination, neither is able to accomplish want they'd hoped--until Trevor makes Barbara an offer. If she accepts, her father will go free, but she will be betraying her country. Before her final decision, the ship on which they're traveling is blown off course during a storm. Danger awaits on Jamaica's shores, then later when they finally reach Ohio and Lake Erie. By now both their love and their lives seem doomed. Will either survive a horrible fate?