1814 Kayla is an American farm girl who loves animals and is trapped in her aunt's trap of trying to force her to marry her stepson. Alex is a British 3rd Lieutenant trapped in his country's lust for blood of the rebel Americans and their country. They are on opposite sides of the Revolution. But when Alex's ship lands on the shore by Kayla's farm, which was about a mile from Washington D.C., the capital of America, their world's collide. Alex saved Kayla from a terrible fate and when he becomes injured, even though she tends his wound, it is clear she hates him. Will the British Lieutenant and the American farm girl learn how to get along to survive all the challenges thrown their way and when their world's constantly come together? Will it go as far as a friendship? Will it even go as far as to become love? Can they hope for more?