Of Their Own Free Will by L.E. Denton

A carefully researched historical drama from a watershed era in America, Of Their Own Free Will: Fort Mims to New Orleans by L.E. Denton shines an uncommon light on assimilation, belonging, and the weight of patriotic betrayal. Forced by a marauding Indian army to flee the fort he calls home with his wise Uncle John, Jacob Worley wrestles with the unavoidable divide in his soul – red warrior or white ally. Embarking on a journey into the legacy of his blood and America’s untamed wilderness, the overlapping lines of his loyalty, duty, and morality begin to blur, for a deeply thought-provoking examination of identity in the most trying of circumstances. Viscerally capturing the tenuous alliances and shifting culture of the pre-Antebellum South, this intensely realized work of historical fiction is a sharply penned portrait of personhood and nationhood under fire.