After swindling a swindler, Rachael Kenney flees Chicago to Missouri where she lives tucked away from the war until spring of 1862 when a corrupt Pinkerton detective and acting federal agent, coerces Rachael into espionage. She impersonates a captured Confederate spy entrusted to purchase rifles from secretive arms merchants in Provincial Canada, to lure them into a trap. But guns are only the ante in a conspiracy to force the United States into a...