When Thomas Weedon Maddux seeks out John Wild to defend the honor of his sister he sets off a chain of events that reverberates through Mosby's Confederacy and into the heart of Washington, D.C. As shadowy players from both the Confederate and Union secret services keep their distance, photographer Rob McEntee and his brother, Andrew, race to rescue a Quaker mother held hostage in the no-man's-land of Northern Virginia.