In the initial tale of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son, Orson Scott Card introduced his readers to a very familiar-but just slightly different-pioneer America where magic functions. Hex symptoms are powerful, good and evil presences roam the land, and many folks have particular talents. Within this thrilling sequel, Alvin Maker is awakening to many mysteries: his very own strange forces, the magic from the American frontier, as well as the unique virtues of its selected people, the Local Americans.

Young Alvin Maker, the seventh on the subject of Crimson Prophet son of a seventh son, has amazing talents for the white boy-he could cause stone to split smoothly less than his hands, his knots by no means untie, he can knit bone fragments, and he can call small animals to accomplish his bidding. Stranger still his abilities are imperceptible towards the Indians, who generally hear the fire-setting of the sparks as well as the water-finding of the dowsers as an interruption within their music but who cannot hear Alvin at all.

Lolla-Wossiky can be an Indian whose fate is closely associated with Alvin’s. He’s been an undignified drunk since he was eleven, when he viewed white men murder his dad. The black noise in his mind since the loss of life shot rang out has drowned out the green music he needs to live well, and his lifestyle is a constant search for the right balance of alcohol to still the black noise without silencing the green music-until he fulfills Alvin.

Shortly Alvin must summon most his powers to avoid a tragic war between Native Us citizens and the white colored settlers of North America.