"Find me and I will ease your burden."

Confederate Private Jonathan Woodard is drawn to the voice. To the little girl's image lying between two dead soldiers on the battlefield, one surely her father.

A search for the unnamed girl leads Woody to Southern Ohio. To an Underground Railroad conductor who might hold the key to the girl's location. To the widow Rebecca Johnston. To a love he thought he'd never find. Love binds them together. But an unforgivable lie threatens to tear them apart.

Will Rebecca lead Woody to the unnamed girl? Will Woody delay his search to accompany Rebecca on a rescue mission to Richmond, Virginia, to save a freedman and his young son? Can any human being survive Lumpkin's notorious slave jail?