What if the South won the Civil War? Plot Against the North tells a risky love story amid battles between North and South. Thallus, houseboy at Grange Plantation, and Eliza Fairfax Tharp, mistress of Heather Hill, flee back country Virginia to seek moral and social equality among free thinkers. Life in Washington and a jealous Confederate major separate the two. The major blackmails the couple and thrusts them into an intrigue of spying and treachery which influences America's dissolution. When the war ends, the United States is asunder.