(1991) Tidewater Virginia, 1832. A young country grinds toward civil war, and one man, Dorian Trozen, torn between two worlds will transform many lives in his struggle for identity and power.
(1992) As the nation prepares for a civil war, four people--white- skinned ex-slave Dorian Trozen, Wyatt Craig, Tidewater aristocrat Alexander Wallace, and Northern spy Grace MacHutcheon--embark on separate missions for the Confederacy.