What if peace meant erasing who you are?

In 1865, the Civil War ends in a truce, and Elizabeth abandons the newly formed Confederate nation of Bethel for Victoria, the British monarchy in the American Southeast. Determined to heal and unite, leaders here develop a bold mandate to gradually eliminate race, religion, and culture in the name of peace.

Present day, Mona lives in the Union of States, where society has been shaped by generations of outlawing culture, prohibiting religious practice, and blending races.

Everything shifts when she visits Victoria and falls for Duke Louis Stuart Cromwell, a passionate royal who believes true peace doesn’t require forgetting the past.

As Bethel, a dictatorship in the South, threatens to ignite war, family secrets come to light. Mona realizes the danger of extremes: her home, where progressiveness masks erasure, and Bethel, where heritage is stratified to sow division.