The great struggle for supremacy in America was fought nowhere more violently than in the lower Mississippi River Valley. The colonists in this outpost on the edge of the world lived in constant danger from the elements, disease, native tribes, slave rebellions, and their own political intrigues. Young Evan MacDonald finds himself flung into the midst of this world. In it he finds adventure, romance, and much more. Based on the original records of colonial French Louisiana, Henry Howell has recreated important, though all-but-forgotten, events in the struggle for control of North America.