Patriot Patrick Henry's ten-year-old daughter Annie helps save the wheat crop on their Virginia plantation from fire and her father from a Tory spy in Richmond.
In 1789, the year Annie Henry turns sixteen, her family moves to Leatherwood on the frontier and eventually she goes to Richmond, where she gets a close look at the Revolutionary War.
In 1775 in Virginia, Patrick Henry's ten-year-old daughter, Annie, tries to concentrate on her day-to-day activities but is increasingly caught up in her father's role in the colonists' growing unrest.