Boiled down, March Till Dusk, is a story about a soldier and his companions coming upon a young girl with powerful magical abilities that she has no control over her, the girl and soldier are drawn to one another as the soldier's mentor/fatherly attributes immediately take to her wide eyed headstrong attitude. The girl seeks out to be a 'hero' like the stories she's been told of her father who was also a soldier, as the story goes on, she learns what it truly means to be a hero.