What if you were counted among hundreds of civilians wrongly charged with treason? Creighton Branagan is one of the few men still residing in the mill village of Roswell, Georgia at the closing stages of the American Civil War. His deafness bars him from military service and condemns him as an outcast. Mae Parrish's dissatisfaction extends to a life of too much work and too little joy. She and Creighton form a wary alliance when they are included among hundreds of southern textile workers arrested for treason and deported to northern prisons under Federal guard. Their crime: manufacturing...