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Gideon Tugwell looks forward to the future when a job opening in the Confederate capital puts his dream of becoming a writer closer than ever. But then he overhears plans for a slave uprising threatening the lives of his friends Nat and Emily, and he knows he must stay home to help. But will there still be time to travel to the job interview?

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Gideon Tugwell looks forward to the future when a job opening in the Confederate capital puts his dream of becoming a writer closer than ever. But then he overhears plans for a slave uprising threatening the lives of his friends Nat and Emily, and he knows he must stay home to help. But will there still be time to travel to the job interview?

Emily Lodge is making the best of her situationstranded at Briarstone Plantation in Virginia, unable to cross the Civil War battlefields to her home in Illinois. She hates slavery and vows to help her friend Nat. But when Gideon warns her about the uprising, the tables have turned; now she desperately needs Nat's help.

Nat Turner, a secretly educated slave, has been returned to captivity at Briarstone. To make matters worse, he is about to be sold to a brutal slave trader. As time runs out and the uprising draws near, Nat must make a decision: avenge his anger, or help his friends.