The American Revolution was supposed to create a new world. What if it had?

Driven from their homes by war, prejudice and violence, four young strangers are swept up in the rising storm of rebellion. As musket fire echoes across a fractured continent, and magic stirs in the shadows of history, they find themselves fighting not just for independence—but for true freedom for all. They are:

• Sarah Washington, queer daughter of George, expert with sword and pistol, yet trapped in an impending marriage to her best friend's brother.
• Mattie Hemings, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, who finds freedom in a hidden community of runaways.
• Hodaysot-own, a Seneca who struggles to control the supernatural powers he's been granted.
• Eamon O'Reilly, a fugitive Irishman and the son of a selkie, a mermaid-like sea creature.

Together they will cross swamps, forests and battlefields, clash with slavers, soldiers, and sorcerers, forge unexpected romances, and master arts of war that may change the fate of a revolution. But their dreams reach far beyond independence from a king. They dare imagine a country built on the true ideals of liberty: the abolition of slavery, sovereignty for Native Americans, and equality for women and LGBTQ people.

Adventure, magic, humor, romance, and revolution collide in The Children of Liberty, an alternate history epic that reimagines the American Revolution not as it was, but as it should have been.

Advance Praise for The Children Of Liberty

"Richie Chevat's saga is a brilliant, well-crafted, smash-up of eighteenth-century American history and twenty-first century feminism, with a large dose of richly flavored imagination that is thrilling, full of wit, embodied by powerful female, First Nation, and free black characters. These characters display powers–spiritual, physical, and intellectual–that are used to combat the subjugation that tries to limit, incarcerate, or enslave them. Reading The Children of Liberty is akin to feasting on Christmas morning, you are filled with a satisfaction that lasts all through the meal." – Joe Morton, actor, director, writer, activist

"The Children of Liberty is a kaleidoscope of fact and fantasy that conjures the origins of America in ways you never imagined. Deftly and ingeniously building on the bare scaffold of what you learned in history classes, Chevat compellingly draws us into a world in which a multiethnic set of pansexual and gender fluid people are fighting for personal and national freedom. These sensitively drawn heroes fight for an America that should have been and still might be, one in which the principles of liberty and justice for all are realized from the very founding. This book tears down all the statues." – Michael Bronski, A Queer History of the United States

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