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 new British monarchy in the American Southeast. Determined to heal and unite, leaders here develop a bold mandate to eliminate race, religion, and culture in the name of peace.

In 2025, Mona lives in The Union of States, a society 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.