This is a story of pioneers? pirates and ponies? floods? earthquakes? a mysterious wilderness settlement and how the second generation of a Cherokee family found a home on the upper reaches of the Little Red River. Barely sixteen? Ruth Harris is captured with her brother Jerry and held prisoner on Pirate Island. With help from the New Madrid earthquakes? they flee through trackless wilderness and Jerry comes of age during their sojourn at Flee?s Settlement. Ruth...

In the late 1800s, a twelve-year-old nightspirit living in the Great Smoky Mountains despairs as homesteaders destroy her forest habitat, until a chance encounter with a "day-folk" man changes everything she thought she knew about her people--and their greatest enemy.