The Land Remembers...
Before the fires of King Philip's War consumed New England, there was still time for peace.
Yellow Feather, the first installment of The Metacom Saga, begins an epic historical fiction series chronicling the collision of two worlds in seventeenth-century New England—a sweeping saga of diplomacy, betrayal, survival, and the people caught between them.
In the forests and coastal villages of the 1660s, Ousamequin-Massasoit, Grand Sachem of the Wampanoag Confederacy, has spent a lifetime maintaining a fragile alliance with the growing English colonies. For decades, diplomacy has preserved peace. But age is overtaking the great sachem, and the world he fought to protect is beginning to fracture.
As English settlements spread deeper into Native lands, old agreements unravel. Suspicion grows among colonists and tribal leaders alike. Younger generations inherit a world shaped by uneasy compromise, while powerful men and women on both sides struggle to determine what must be sacrificed to survive.
Told through multiple perspectives—Indian and English, leaders and settlers, warriors and families—Yellow Feather reveals the deeply human story behind the road to King Philip's War. As alliances weaken and tensions rise, the question is no longer whether conflict will come...only how much will be lost when it does.
Richly grounded in historical and genealogical research, Yellow Feather is the opening chapter of an unforgettable historical epic.
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ISBN: 9798234110862
Pages: 385
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The peace Massasoit spent a lifetime building is beginning to fracture.
With their father gone, Wamsutta and Metacomet inherit more than leadership of the Pokanoket people. They inherit his fragile alliance with Plymouth—an alliance increasingly strained by English expansion, disputed lands, political manipulation, and a growing belief among the colonists that Native independence itself is a threat.
Wamsutta, now known to the English as Alexander, struggles to honor his father’s final wish: preserve the peace, but never at the cost of his people’s sovereignty. Beside him, his younger brother Metacomet—Philip—watches the English with mounting distrust, convinced that friendship has become another weapon of conquest.
As forged deeds, whispered accusations, shifting alliances, and fear spread across New England, Wamsutta emerges as a leader the English can no longer ignore—or easily control. And in Plymouth, powerful men begin to wonder whether the son of Massasoit has become too dangerous to remain free.
The war has not yet begun. But the storm is gathering.
Beneath the Gathering Storm, Book Two of The Metacom Saga, continues the sweeping story begun in Yellow Feather, bringing to life the people, relationships, and mounting tensions that pushed colonial New England toward one of the most devastating conflicts in its history.