Bored by his Pinkerton mission, twenty-year-old Cian Lonergan gets thrown into the deep end of a mystery involving the deaths of several Union Army officers. Undercover and unwelcomed by his regiment, the young captain discovers a plot in the command structure that may change the course of the Civil War. Incinerated, strung up, and kidnapped...he adopts his abusers' techniques to penetrate their circle of secrecy. But will he live long enough to expose their treachery? Joined in his mission by a Southern belle and a bull of a man from the regiment, Cian and the others risk their lives to unravel a deep conspiracy and stop the murders once and for all.