Orson Scott Card

Since the day he watched white men murder his father, Lolla-Wossiky has been a broken man, drowning his grief in a rough frontier town. His brother, Ta-Kumsaw, harbors a fierce vision to keep the encroaching white settlers confined to the eastern lands and protect their people. But the brutal Governor Bill Harrison has far darker, more violent plans for the native tribes. When Harrison sets his ruthless scheme into motion, the collision of cultures unwittingly draws in young Alvin Miller. Alvin is no ordinary frontier boy; he is a Maker, gifted with extraordinary, earth-shaping magical powers. As tensions explode into conflict, Alvin's path intertwines with Lolla-Wossiky and Ta-Kumsaw, launching the next critical stage of his magical education. Step into a brilliantly reimagined alternate American history where folk magic is real, loyalties are tested in blood, and a young boy's extraordinary knack might be the only thing that can prevent a devastating war.