Rodney, the Ranger, with Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield

Virginia, 1775. Fourteen-year-old Rodney Allison lives on the edge of an empire in flames, where the mountains whisper of war and the forests hide dangers no boy should face alone. When he isn't squabbling with his arrogant cousin or earning the admiration of the spirited Lisbeth, Rodney proves his mettle by charging a maddened bull to save her, aact that marks him as something more than an ordinary youth. But the revolution comes home to roost, and Rodney finds himself drawn into the company of Daniel Morgan's Virginia Rangers, frontier fighters whose brutal effectiveness against the British has become the stuff of legend. Through skirmishes with loyalist raiders and tense negotiations with Native American tribes, Rodney must learn what it means to be a man when the world demands everything. This is adventure fiction as it was once written: earnest, swift, and unapologetically rooted in a particular vision of American origins.