Creating maps for the Union Army is less than satisfying after a war-ending injury and learning his childhood friend was in love with his late wife. But now both are dead, and Joh, Williams is left with an angry child no one can control, he's not eve certain is his own. A flippant proposal and an attack on her person finds Elizabeth Ruthers married to a mapmaker whose only need for her is taking control of his ungovernable child. Feelings quickly shift into something more hopeful. But when the enemy gains vital secrets, her suspicions land her behind bars.