The Civil War is over, everything is in flux. For two brothers, it isn't over yet.

Lace fears Izzy won't make it home. If Buster gets there first, she's prepared to hide out in the secret room that's part of the underground railroad. She can't let Buster find her. Would he do all he's been threatening her with for years? Lace doesn't want to chance finding out.

Buster's only a day behind him. Izzy needs to get to the house and tell everyone the war's over and they're free. Finding complete devastation and Mam, Pa, and Satin dead is a hard blow. Izzy hopes Lace is waiting for him in her grandpa's cabin. If she is, they must get on the move. There's no telling what Buster will do when he finds the place destroyed and their parents dead. Will Buster think he burned their house to the ground? Murdered them all?