Combining modern issues faced by Indigenous peoples and the suspense of a crime-thriller, Firekeeper’s Daughter centers around 18-year-old Daunis Fontaine who struggles to fit into her Sault community. In light of the drug-related death of her best friend, Fontaine begins to uncover the hold that addictive drugs have on her community. The story introduces readers to traditional Ojibwe phrases and medicines and pulls back the curtain on the “corrosive effect of drug-use” in Indigenous communities.

A former Director of the Office of Indian Education in the U.S. Department of Education, Angeline Boulley now writes stories inspired by her own Ojibwe community. Boulley seeks to craft stories that explore the experiences of modern day Indigenous women.