Star-crossed
lovers Cade Kincaid and Lyssa Rendel meet as children traveling with a
pack train into Creek country. Both are of mixed blood.Ten years later
Lyssa manipulates a wedding based on a childhood promise after which
the two are immediately separated by the Creek War. They must survive
the Massacre at Fort Mims, ensuing Creek War, and the brutality of the
time to reunite. Savannah Jack, the cruelest and most frightening of
all the villains of the age, captures Lyssa Rendel, Pushmataha’s
adopted daughter. Lyssa valiantly draws Savannah Jack from the glade
where the children she has rescued and nursed back to health are
secluded after the murderous Red Stick attack and vicious depredations
committed on the nearly 500 inhabitants of the 1-acre stockade built
around the once-gracious plantation home of Samuel Mims.
Cade
knows Savannah Jack well. He was himself captured by this blood-thirsty
Creek years ago when he was associated with William Augustus Bowles who
sought to set himself up as the emperor of the Creek nation upon the
death of Alexander McGillivray. The compelling stories of the
individuals caught up in the seismic forces of conflicting cultures
conveys a human drama of war weaving a tale the theme of which is as
applicable today as it was 200 years ago when this pivotal event
occurred August 30, 1813. “If war is the will of God—a judgment upon
evil—why must the innocents perish?” From the recesses of time—from the
infancy of our new nation— veterans of that revolution fought another
war. The voices of those forgotten people cry out to have their lives
remembered. This is their story.