A presidential agent who plies his trade on land instead of the sea, Ian Stanford is yet another one of Davis' covert men trying to give the Confederacy any small advantage he can against the Union. The Union hates that the Midnight Rider slips in and out of camps hours before they lose ground to the Southern forces. Lilith Bonham wants to live her life in peace but becomes Stanford's unwitting accomplice when she allows him to use her home, but sparks fly between them—especially after he saves her life. A Federal colonel wants her for killing his brother, and he will also stop at nothing to halt the Southern cause—including capturing the Midnight Rider.