A fictional story of a First Native American Tribe living on the Choptank River in the wilds of ancient Maryland. Of a young mother desperately fleeing for her life, and that of her one-week-old daughter, Powhantuwa, who grows up to become the mother of another First Native American girl, Shaahatuck, the heroine in the next book in the series, Run To My River . It is about the haunting spirits that weave throughout their lives until one ancient manages to haunt a millennial, Irish American young woman, Shannon Fitzpatrick in the following book, Run to My River.