A Frontier Odyssey

At the close of the eighteenth century, the Appalachian Mountains separated Continental US civilization from the frontier wilderness.

In a desperate gamble for freedom, mixed-race fourteen-year-old Rachel flees from the Piedmont plantation owned by her incestuous father and is doggedly pursued by the overseer. Alone in the wilderness, she is befriended by three warriors sent as emissaries by Shawnee war chief Blue Jacket and the Confederation of tribes north of the Ohio. Their secret mission...