Thomas Jackson and Quentin Randolph are being hunted.
The Absolutist Government that has taken control of the United States has branded them, and the rest of the House Burgesses, domestic terrorists, and put prices on their heads.
Matthias Ogden, the powerful banker of the Ogden Family Dynasty and president of the Absolutist Government, determined to preserve the global banking organization his family has headed for centuries, mobilizes powerful forces to uncover and destroy the Burgesses once and for all.
As the ugly Civil War rages across the United States, Jackson, Randolph, and the Burgesses, try to protect their families from the bloody violence.
In the desperate struggle to escape, the Jacksons plunge into the mighty expanse of the Jedediah Smith Wilderness, seeking refuge. Transported to a younger America, Thomas and his wife, Karrie, make their stand in the western mountains.
Nathan, a Texan cowboy commissioned by a sacred cause, joins the war effort.
Hoping to save the Jacksons, the Burgesses send Nathan into the wilderness to extract them.
Underneath the majesty of the Grand Tetons, hate, treachery, and thrilling action confronts the Free People, in their fight for the right to live in liberty.