Lady Sydney Hathwell arrives at her uncle's ranch pretending to be a man, and, through a series of misunderstandings, is forced to continue the guise for longer than she intended, despite her growing feelings for fellow ranch worker Tim Creighton, who has no idea Sydney is a woman.

It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service, so he has joined the Hitler Youth, and pretending that he agrees with their violence and book-burning is hard enough--but when he is asked to find out more about "Projekt 1065" both his and his parents' lives get a lot more dangerous.