Stephen Ruddell was only twelve when Shawnee Indians ruthlessly murdered his mother before taking him prisoner in a bloody raid during the summer of 1780. Reluctant to be adopted into the tribe, the white boy grows to love his life as a warrior among the fierce Shawnee. Forced to return to white society after fifteen years, Stephen is a man torn between two worlds. In one he is a respected frontier minister, in the other he is Sinnatha, blood brother of the powerful war chief, Tecumseh. To which world does his heart belong?