Rachael outswindles a corrupt textile magnate then flees Chicago to a secluded Missouri backwoods where she lives in solitude. She eludes bounty hunters and shuns the escalating war between the States, until an enemy finds her. He’s a Pinkerton detective who’s now a deputized Federal agent empowered to arrest and imprison her. That he does and she cornered into spying for the Union. This is happening because Rachael is a lookalike for a captured Confederate spy who has initiated the purchase of a steamboat load of prized British manufactured rifles and munitions to be smuggled down the Mississippi. Assuming the Confederate woman’s mission, Rachael travels to Provincial Canada, to rendezvous with secretive arms merchants and draw them into a trap. Compounding her situation, she surreptitiously hunts for her mother who also fled Chicago to save her life. As Rachael’s mission unfolds the plan veers to where she is captured by enemy agents who accuse her of being an imposter and proceed toward her execution.  Defying the odds, she fights her way to freedom. But in doing so, Rachael discovers she is the key to a plot in progress to draw the United States into another war with England as it continues fighting the American Civil War. But that’s only the ante; the stakes are even higher.  Racing against time, she must  run a gantlet of assassins and saboteurs all the way to Washington before it’s too late and the U.S. is toppled by enemies, foreign and domestic.