Here is a story of passion, intrigue and obsession, played out against the beauty and wilderness of the Ohio River Forest on the eve of the American Revolution The frontier home of seventeen-year-old Hansi Verin - called 'Fire Dawn' - and her Indian-scout father and embittered white mother, is a tinderbox amidst the mounting flames of British treachery and intrigue The once magic-filled, carefree days give way quickly to days and nights of danger and near-death as Fire Dawn grows from a free-spirited girl into a woman of rare desirability and vibrant beauty