Sky and Rebekah Winslow have bucked the tide of western migration.
Making their way back from Oregon City, they settle and propser on a plantation in Virginia, where the begin to raise a family.
Then a young Northerner named Thad Novak makes this way to the Winslow plantation and is taken on as a hired hand.
What caused him to seek out the Winslow?
And should he be trusted?
While the nation totters on the brink of war, Thad and the Winslow boys face conscription into fighting for a cause they do and support and directly again Winslow relatives from the North!