Based on actual events and people who lived on the Virginia frontier in 1774, Through the Fading Darkness is the first book in the Fading Darkness trilogy. A rich cast of characters and events transport listeners back to origins of our nation.
American settlers face a series of brutal reprisals after outlaws murder a group of Shawnee Indians on the Virginia frontier in 1774. During the calamitous events that follow, British colonists, Shawnee warriors, a young slave girl, and an Irish indentured servant must find a way to survive a bloody war that threatens to destroy their entire way of life. Some discover an inner strength they did not think possible. Others sink to the deepest recesses of their humanity. In the end, no one is left unchanged.