The Powder Mill at Powder Mill Run
A Novel of the Forgotten Supply Line

About this book:

In the frozen hollows of Chester County, the waterwheel at Powder Mill Run turns day and night—grinding more than grain. Caleb Penn, a Quaker miller bound by his faith to peace, risks hanging to supply Washington's starving army with black powder. Every sack of saltpeter smuggled through the root cellar, every ton of sulfur hidden beneath cider barrels, tightens the noose: British patrols on the ridges, Quaker elders watching for deviation, and his own brother Thomas, whose righteous certainty may destroy them both.

When a courier from Valley Forge demands five hundredweight before the mountain passes close, Caleb's covert operation becomes a desperate race against winter, suspicion, and the fragile loyalty of Sarah Wayne—the only woman who knows his secret and the only one who might betray it. As the meetinghouse silence grows heavy with accusation and the Redcoats draw nearer, Caleb must decide whether conscience or survival will guide the final grind.

*A taut, atmospheric thriller of the Revolution's hidden war—where the loudest battles were fought in silence, and the powder that turned the tide was ground by hands that had sworn never to hold a gun.*