Louisbourg 1758: When the governor of the French Fortress of Louisbourg decrees that all unmarried women in the Fortress shall be wed before the English lay siege to it once again, Genevieve Henry is adamant that she will not go to the Chapelle. She has been abandoned at the altar once; she will not be humiliated again. But her mother prevails upon her, and she goes. As she suspected, even though there were plenty of soldiers marrying all the eligible young women, no one even casts an eye in her direction. Her relief is palpable, but as the priest snuffs out the candles, Genevieve is grabbed and dragged to the altar by a stranger who is no stranger, but rather the man who had jilted her ten years before. Can Genevieve open the fortress of her heart to a man she suspects is a spy for the English?