A fictional story of a First Native American Tribe living on the Choptank River in the wilds of ancient Maryland. Of a young mother desperately fleeing for her life, and that of her one-week-old daughter, Powhantuwa, who grows up to become the mother of another First Native American girl, Shaahatuck, the heroine in the next book in the series, "Run To My River". It is about the haunting spirits that weave throughout their lives until one ancient manages to haunt a millennial, Irish American young woman, Shannon Fitzpatrick in the following book, Run to My River.