In 1779 New Jersey, a wounded young dragoon named William Van Mater is drawn into a hidden war in the Pine Barrens. As Loyalist raiders, Hessian deserters, and George Washington’s secret operatives converge, Van Mater becomes the unlikely handler of an unfinished supernatural force that history will one day call the Jersey Devil.
Artwork: ChatGPT. Research, writing, and narration are my own.
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McPhee, John. The Pine Barrens. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967.
Sabine, Lorenzo. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution. Boston, 1864.
Washington, George. The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
