Lieutenant Samuel Turner was assigned to the defense of the southern coast of the United States between 1813 and 1815, a time when the United States was embroiled in a second war with Great Britain. In the course of his duties, he meets and falls in love with Juliette Seville, an American born French girl from Mobile and becomes embroiled, along with Juliette's father, in the last British campaign of the War of 1812 along the Gulf Coast shores. At the same time, Lieutenant Albert Pence of His Majesty's Royal Navy becomes part of that campaign while falling in love with Elizabeth McBride, the young wife of a British officer also in that campaign. Each of the four view different aspects of that war and its conclusion while starting new lives together.