"My Name is a Knife is Alix's second book inspired by the life of Daniel Boone; it's designed so it can be read first, or on its own, or after All True Not A Lie In It. And is another extremely powerful, beautifully rendered and heartbreaking imagining of a crucial historical period in North America, where settlement invades and conquers what for a better word might be called "wilderness." As well as a piercing character study of Boone, a man who changed the map for better or for worse, and (with this novel) of Rebecca, the woman who stayed married to him, sometimes over her own dead body, through an extremely long and eventful life. The new novel concentrates on two absolutely crucial and dramatic years in Boone's life. It opens as Boone returns to the shabby fort at Boonesborough, after escaping from the Shawnee in order to save his white family and friends from attack by the Indians and the Brits and receives a decidedly mixed reception. His wife has assumed he's dead and taken most of their children east, and the others in the fort view him as a traitor, and regard his undeniable bond with the Shawnee with deep suspicion. Boone juggles his desire to protect the people of Boonesborough, in particular his daughter Jemima (the only one of his children who waited for him), and his love of the Shawnee people, especially his Indian father and wife. After a dramatic siege and successful defence of the fort against a force led by his adopted father, Blackfish, Daniel journeys to retrieve his family and finds a wife who still resents him for their oldest son's death. Rebecca takes over the telling of the story at this point, and up to the moment when-having lured them all once again into Kentucky, where he starts a new settlement-Boone realizes that he can't control the juggernaut of hate and conquest that will soon role over the Shuswap, and has to decide whether to simply be killed in the fighting or kill; in the final battle he loses another beautiful son. Not only is his son killed, but also his dream that somehow whites and indigenous peoples can come together."--Publisher.

Follow-up to: All true not a lie in it.