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Bloodroot

The beauty and the horrors of Jamestown 2609

A gripping account of survival in America's earliest settlement, Jamestown, Virginia.

Virginia, 1622. Powhatan warriors prepare war paint from the sacred juice of the bloodroot plant, but Nehiegh, The English son-in-law of Chief Ochawintan has sworn never to kill again. He must leave before the massacre.

England 1609. Matthew did not trust his friend, Richard's stories of Paradise in the Jamestown settlement, but nothing could have equipped him for the violence and privation that awaited him in this savage land.

Once ashore in the fledging settlement, Matthew experiences the unimaginable beauty of this pristine land and learns the meaning of hope, but it all turns into a nightmare as gold mania infests the community and Indians become an increasing threat. The nightmare only gets worse as the harsh winter brings on "the starving time" and all the grizzly horrors of a desperate and dying community that come with it.

Driven to the depths of despair by the guilt of his sins against Richard and his lust for that man's wife, Matthew seeks death.

In that moment of crisis, when he chooses death over a life of depravity, he unexpectedly finds new life among his sworn enemy, the Powhatan Indians.

What will this new life mean for Matthew, and will he survive?

Daniel V. Meier Jr.

A retired Aviation Safety Inspector for the FAA, Daniel V. Meier, Jr. has always had a passion for writing. During his college years, he studied History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington (UNCW), American Literature at The University of Maryland Graduate School. In 1980 he published an Action/Thriller with Leisure Books under the pen name of Vince Daniels.

Meier worked for the Washington Business Journal as a journalist and has been a contributing writer/editor for several aviation magazines.

In addition to "Bloodroot," Dan is the author of the award-winning historical novel, "The Dung Beetles of Liberia," released in September 2019 and the literary novel, "No Birds Sing Here," released in March 2021, both by BQB Publishing.

Dan and his wife live in Owings, Maryland, about twenty miles south of Annapolis and when he's not writing, they spend their summers sailing on the Chesapeake Bay.

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