William "Liam" Dalton was set for a simple life as a Georgia planter and husband to his beloved Clara. When Clara is lost to a sudden fever, Liam incinerates his grief, trading the quiet cotton fields for a Brigadier General’s stars and the desperate violence of the Confederate cause. He chases rank and chaos, a life so grand, so overwhelming, it can drown out the memory of her simple grace. As the war collapses around him, Liam realizes the world he built is a monument to his sorrow, and he must shed his uniform and his guilt to find the unclaimed silence of the Western frontier, a peace he never allowed himself to seek in the South.
