After her family's downfall, Megan Todd is left to care for her opium-addicted brother. To survive, she adopts the identity of Gabriel Herbert, a singer who exists only to entertain. Meanwhile, her childhood sweetheart, Edward Norman, infiltrates enemy forces, rising through the ranks to become the famed Spencer Holland, a celebrated colonel in the north. But when fate reunites them years later, Edward fails to recognize the woman he once loved.
