On the cusp of the war that would change the fate of empires, Clementine, the daughter of an earl, finds herself in the lush English countryside attending her younger sister’s wedding.

But Clementine is different. She wants more from life than to just walk in her husband’s shadow. Like the formidable Florence Nightingale, she has a dream to become a nurse of the Empire.

Her path crosses with the handsome and dashing hussar, Major Stirling Whitt Whittaker. A whirlwind love affair ensues, leading to young Stirling asking for Clementine’s hand in marriage.

However, as fate would have it, the Crimean War drags them apart, twisting and weaving the threads of destiny. Will her Stirling survive the horrors of war unscathed or will she have to treat him like the many other hundreds of men coming from the front?