Madelaine de Montalia - vampire, scholar and sometime lover of Count Saint-Germain - is no stranger to history. Her studies have brought her into contact with some of the most important events in the last hundred years. This time, however, her work documenting the cultures of Native American tribes lands her right in the middle of the American Civil War...and in the arms of one of the war's most famous and uncompromising generals, William Tecumseh Sherman.

Though Tecumseh's duty to his family and Madelaine's commitment to her work keep them apart, their passion cannot be denied. Surrounded by the horrors of the war and its reminder of their own mortality, can they each find the courage they need to love in the face of death?