A poor Tennessee farm boy is coerced into taking a rich man’s place in the American  ‘War of Northern Aggression’’. Six brutal years later, WILL JOHNSON returns home bitter, battle-made, and skilled only in violence. He finds his family dead, his land claimed by strangers, and his sister married into the very family that deceived him. Trying to settle only deepens the betrayal. What begins as an attempt to reclaim his home twists into something darker: vanished freedmen, secret graves, and a masked terror stalking the countryside. To learn what really happened, Will goes to war again – against the living, the dead, and the pledge he swore to keep.