Brier Creek is historical fiction about a sixteen year old English boy who migrates to the New World in America in 1698. Vic Smith became an indentured servant to pay for his passage to America. He served three years at Magnolia Plantation above Charles Town in the South Carolina colony. After his time as an indentured servant, he becomes a fur and skin trader with the Indians along the Savannah River. He makes friends with several Indian tribes and an enemy of the Yamasee Indians. After left for dead by Turtle Dove, a Yamasee chief, he is rescued by Morning Dew, a Yuchi Indian maiden. Vic marries Morning Dew and they settle on Brier Creek south of what would become Augusta, Georgia and west of the Savannah River. He fights his whole life to keep his Brier Creek farm from the French, Spanish, English, and the Yamasee Indians. Vic and Morning Dove not only had to overcome the attacks of men, they had overcome the hardships of clearing and farming the back country of Georgia with its hot, humid environment filled with insects and disease. They raised three sons: one becomes a Yuchi Indian warrior, one becomes a Charles Town merchant and lawyer, and the youngest son becomes a Indian trader and cattleman near Augusta.