Spirited, young Eunice will not settle for a woman's lot in 1800s
Canada. She sees the inequitable use of power everywhere, from her
abusive father to the elite-ruled government, and she cannot help but
challenge it. This historical fiction follows her escape from trouble
into more and more trouble, through which her ignorance grows into a
sophisticated political understanding of her society. Impatient to claim
a place in it, Eunice dresses as a boy to find more freedom and joins an
independence rebellion against the elite-ruled government. She lands in
jail for stealing a rich man's horse, and there she begins to understand
the intersections of power and oppression through the politics of
anti-slavery and prison abolition. Though she rarely finds ease in the
drudgery of settler life in Upper Canada, readers will fall in love with
Eunice for her integrity and tenacity against all odds.