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sBy: Moira Z. Wilson

The revolutionary fires ignited by the British at Fort Detroit under the leadership of Lt. Governor Henry Hamilton burn all the way to the hearth of Adam Henry Earnest and his wife, Eve (Elmer, Imler or Hillpot, Hillebartin) Earnest of Bedford, Pennsylvania. Wrenched from her home, Eve’s journey tests the human spirit as she struggles to protect their two youngest sons, Henry and Michael during the years 1777-1786.

However, the British fail to recognize that while these fires make a diversion and incite alarm on the western Colonial frontiers, these same fires can forge a new nation shaped by the blows and fueled by the life’s blood of her indigenous people. Inspired by the oral histories collected at the turn of the twentieth century and published in 1911 by Mrs. Emma A. M. Replogle in Indian Eve and her Descendants, Revolutionary Fires; A tale of Indian Eve is a historically-based work of fiction that introduces readers to many amazing individuals who have been recorded or who have recorded their words during this tumultuous period. Ultimately, to survive, Eve must rely on unexpected friendships and even enemies while a British captive of the Revolutionary War and esclave in Fort Detroit.