The Ward of Tecumseh

In the summer of 1812, as America marches toward war with Britain, a young man named Jack Telfair watches the woman he loves marry another. Heartbroken in Alabama, he does what dozens of spurned suitors do that year: he joins the army. But Jack's story soon intertwines with Alagwa's, a woman of mixed Shawnee and white heritage raised by the legendary chief Tecumseh himself. As tensions between nations explode into open conflict, Alagwa must navigate a world that sees her as neither one thing nor another, while Jack discovers that the war will demand far more of him than he ever imagined. Crittenden Marriott weaves together romance, adventure, and historical drama to examine what happens when loyalty, identity, and love collide in a nation tearing itself apart. The novel offers a vivid portrait of early 19th-century America, from the gossiping parlors of the South to the battlefields where Tecumseh's confederacy makes its final stand. For readers who crave historical fiction that grapples with questions of belonging and the costs of war.