In this young adult novel, James Herbert Smith tells the story of Wah-Say-Lan, a Seneca. Amid the turmoil of the American Revolution, she defends her people and her beliefs, even as she falls in love with an enemy soldier, Freeman Trentham/Jamwesaw. 
As they join forces, the cross paths with Cornplanter, Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, Red Jacket, and other men and women from history.

Through physical dangers and intellectual sparring, they learn about love, loss and what it means to be true to themselves.