The Auglaize Conspiracy

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The year is 1766. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Seven Years War and Pontiac's War are over but scars remain. The Upper Country or </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pays d'en Haut</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> as the region around the Great Lakes is called has fallen to the British Army. They control forts at Niagara Detroit and Michilimackinac but no one controls the backcountry. It is contested ground occupied by people who speak Algonquian French and Iroquoian languages.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>At the junction of the Auglaize and Maumee Rivers southwest of Lake Erie </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>métis</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> interpreter Marguerite Boyer discovers the headless bodies of the New York fur trader Ben Stone and his five </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Canadien</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> boatmen. They had recently been trading with the Miami and Ottawa people who live along the river. Marguerite reports the deaths to British authorities in Detroit who assign Phineas Philbrook a New Hampshire-born ensign to investigate. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Philbrook has only recently arrived in the Upper Country and knows little of the region or its people so Marguerite is hired as his interpreter and guide. She must teach him to understand her homeland and its people as they search for answers.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Can Marguerite and Philbrook discover what happened at Auglaize? Only if they recognize that not everyone wants them to succeed and only if they listen to the diverse voices of the people who call the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pays d'en Haut</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> home.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p>