The truth will light the road to freedom, if she's willing to fight for it. What began as a rivalry has budded into romance. But as Eliza Drake plans her wedding to a wealthy abolitionist, she has no idea that a dark secret from her past could throw her plans into disarray. The husband she believes died years before still sits on a Boston street corner, waiting for their reunion. Will she discover the truth in time to change her fate? Or will the wicked Marshal Jackson Reed thwart whatever hope still lives on? When Eliza swipes a runaway slave from beneath him, his need for vengeance begins a perilous game of cat and mouse that can only end in destruction.