The book is a biography of Rebecca Brewton Motte which includes her activities during the American Revolution with emphasis on the siege of Fort Motte and her achievements after the war in paying her husband's debts and establishing herself as an independent rice planter. It also contains a section at the end of the legacy of the siege of Fort Motte-which Steve Smith, Director of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology has called "an archetypal battle of the Revolution in South Carolina."