During the summer of 1950 in Bluffton, South Carolina, high school graduate, Mick Mackenzie falls deeply in love with a stranger, the beautiful and mysterious, Sara. But Sara's hiding a shocking secret. One that will catapult Mick into his adulthood, and send him halfway around the world to fight in a deadly police action in Korea. But it turns out staying alive during a brutal war might be easier than staying alive when he gets home. Sara's secrets are waiting for him. Driven by his love for her, he'll have an even deadlier war to fight to save the woman he thinks she is.