Sometimes you look for peace and find war.The Civil War finds California. Ira Beard volunteers to defend the Union. Instead of traveling east he's sent to bring down a Rebel who has been robbing gold mines. Ira believes in honor and a righteous cause. When he gets wind of a plot to rob the San Francisco mint, he knows he has a war on his hands. When he learns his wife Octavia is held hostage, he really gets mad.Octavia de LaLuz, Ira's wife, is determined to help whether he knows it or not. She decides to become a double agent, spying for both North and South. Playing a dangerous game, she feeds false information to the Rebels and reports back to her Union handler. When the Confederates take her hostage she wonders if maybe she's in over her head. Read the book and travel to a time past, which haunts us yet today.
