The men of the West flock to watch the Northern Spy, a beautiful woman who sings...while locked in a cage. In every city, Helen's alluring and mysterious act culminates in a high-stakes poker game. The winner's prize: a night with the Spy.
Helen Winters' life as a Union spy behind enemy lines was no act. But now that the war is over, her heroism has her trapped. Tortured by her memories and by the man who holds her prisoner, she clings to her dreams of freedom.
Like Helen, Union battlefield surgeon Dr. James Madison lost the best parts of himself in the war. Haunted by the demons of an old addiction, he knows he's no hero, but Helen stirs to life the man he once was--and the man he could be again.
He might win her. She might save him. Or perhaps they'll both lose it all...