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Title: Discovering Freedom’s Face: Patricia Brandon’s Rise of the Pale Moon Celebrates Untold Stories of the American Revolution

Buffalo, United States, 23rd Sep 2026 - Rise of the Pale Moon is not simply a historical novel, it is a reckoning. Patricia Brandon’s sweeping epic centers not on generals and battlefields, but on the women who carried the weight of revolution in their hands and hearts: Vieve Whittier, an indentured servant marked by childhood trauma; Maybelle, born into chattel slavery; and Ashwiyaa, a member of the Catawba Nation stripped of her people. Through their interconnected journey from 1774 to 1781, Brandon illuminates a truth often buried in history books, that the American Revolution was built as much on the dreams of the enslaved, the indentured, and the indigenous as it was on the words of the Founding Fathers.What makes Rise of the Pale Moon extraordinary is Brandon’s unflinching exploration of bondage in its manifold forms. While readers witness Vieve’s escape from London’s brutal streets and Maybelle’s lifelong servitude, they also encounter a complex America grappling with freedom’s contradictions. The novel’s most powerful achievement is its refusal to flatten these experiences. Each woman’s story matters equally. Each claim to liberty carries the same weight. Brandon weaves historical figures, Thomas Paine, Emily Geiger, General Thomas Sumter, into a narrative that honors real people who truly lived, while imagining the private moments of connection, sacrifice, and hope that define human courage.Brandon’s research is both meticulous and personal. In preparing this novel, she discovered a family connection to Emily Geiger, the legendary South Carolinian who rode to deliver a message during the Revolution. The author learned that her ancestor, Conrad Kunzler, emigrated from Switzerland in 1736 and settled near the frontier lands where Geiger’s family lived. This disco...

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