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.
About the Author: Yvonne Dorsey, native of the coal mining region of West Virginia, and grandniece of the famous explorer and frontiersman, Daniel Boone, heard many stories of her famous uncle during her youth. A fascination and admiration for the First Native Americans was established in Yvonne long ago, when she learned to make a teepee in grade school, and then again when she lived in Arizona for a year, and with her young family, swam on a First Native American's Reservation. In 1990, while attending a Boone family reunion in West Virginia, on the farm of her great grandfather, James Boone, who hunted with his Uncle Daniel, Yvonne received a short version of a Boone Genealogy. A fascination for the colonial era grew into an appreciation for her ancestry. Later, when a 500 page researched 'Boone Genealogy' developed by a friend, and in-law, Marie Beck, was presented to her by Marie; fuel was added to the passion. Discovering that she was also related to President Abraham Lincoln through her Boone Ancestry, was exciting as well as emotionally fulfilling, because it was a reminder of his dedication to his (Abe's) and her, belief that "All Men (and especially Women) are created equal." More than thirty years ago, Yvonne drafted the first story of one of the Riverbooks; "Run to My River." It was not completed until after receiving her copy of Beck's "Boone Genealogy." Newly inspired, She uncovered her book drafts, and began creating her own imaginative characters. "Run to My River" was published in 2008. In 2014, she re-wrote it and placed it as a following story behind a fictional ancestral book, "Powhantuwa's River", thus reversing the order of presentation. Prior to the Riverbooks; in 1978, Yvonne published a poetry book, "Zany Things", and more recently: "For the Love"/ Finding Me"/ "Birthday Stories" Currently, Ms. Dorsey, mother of three grown children, and three grown grandchildren, resides in Historic Clinton, New Jersey, a town with a river running along Main Street, which provides camera bugs with a picturesque subject, and fishermen with buckets of trout. She attends the Clinton United Methodist Church, enjoys the social phase of retirement with friends, travels to Maryland and Florida to visit families, and thanks God every day for good health and peace.