The American Revolution. South Carolina, 1780. Bereavement. Infatuation. Vampires. After Margaret Trevette arrived in the Colonies to live out the remainder of her days with her father, a general in the Loyalist army, she discovered there was more to the New World than she initially thought. Brutal war tactics from both armies. Strange disappearnces. Greed hovering around every corner. And, perhaps most startling of all, an enigmatic, stunning, blue-eyed colonel that contained the largest mystery of all.