When the Civil War comes to Fredericksburg, Texas, two women as contentious as the North and South, are left by their husbands, brothers who fight on opposite sides.
A Music box pays for their lives and changes the course of their relationship..
Despite their antagonism, they must pull together to survive.
Eliza and Katarina, in their quest for survival, commit acts they never believed possible.
His father deserts his Confederate post to help at planting and harvest, but Comanche and the hangaerdbande (rogue vigilantes) threaten their lives and livelihood.
While trying to hold together the farm, they take in a motherless boy.
When the Civil War comes to Fredericksburg, Texas, two women as contentious as the North and South, are left by their husbands, brothers who fight on opposite sides