In a clash between the old world and the new, they would fight to make their destinies one.
Dawn of the 20th Century. La Crosse, Wisconsin. As the lumber mills along the Mississippi and Black Rivers grow silent, breweries rise to define the city. Bright and well-loved, Annie Vogel is an heir to that legacy. The city is hers if she wants it. But behind the closed doors of Vogel House, a threat to her family undermines her world. For John Wagner, there's a different inheritance. Subjected to an unforgiving Prussian moral code that leads to loss and rejection, he learns a painful lesson about the fallibility of love. If he is to survive this world, he believes it will be on his own. Annie and John are destined to meet, but as America slides inexorably into war and prohibition, their futures together are anything but fated.