Virginia, 1747
At the frontier of the known world, Britain and France tussle for dominance in the Americas. The fate of the empire will soon lie in the hands of an unsuspecting young man: fifteen-year-old George Washington.
As Virginians attempt to seize the Ohio Valley, and the native tribes seek to protect their way of life, George is more preoccupied with coming out of his brother’s shadow. But as he is drawn into the maelstrom of colonial politics, he crosses paths with others seeking freedom and fortune in the New World: a sly Irish fur trader, a tobacco planter’s prodigal son, an exiled Jacobite and a woman on the run…
One by one, their actions set them on a collision course that will change the ebb and flow of history, as events climax at a fork in the Ohio river...
Based on true historical events.