In a Confederacy that never fell, Ophelia Beaumont has been raised among wealth, privilege, and people her family insists are property. But as childhood questions harden into defiance, the sale of someone she loves forces her to confront the brutality sustaining her world—and decide how much she is willing to risk to challenge it.

Years later, her path collides with Cyrus Gray, a guarded resistance operative who has little reason to trust a planter’s daughter. As Ophelia begins passing information beneath the notice of Southern society, the two are drawn into a dangerous alliance that could ignite a rebellion—or destroy them both.