diff --git a/ape_aws_kms/accounts.py b/ape_aws_kms/accounts.py
index eafe5c2..f070e8b 100644
--- a/ape_aws_kms/accounts.py
+++ b/ape_aws_kms/accounts.py
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 import boto3
-from hashlib import sha256
+import json
 
 from datetime import datetime
+from hashlib import sha256
 from typing import Any, Iterator, List, Optional
 
-from eth_account.messages import encode_defunct
+from eth_account import Account
+from eth_account.messages import _hash_eip191_message, SignableMessage
+from eth_pydantic_types import HexBytes
 from eth_utils import keccak, to_checksum_address
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
 
@@ -73,17 +76,67 @@ def public_key(self):
     def address(self) -> AddressType:
         return to_checksum_address(keccak(self.public_key)[:20])
 
-    def sign_message(self, msg: Any, **signer_options) -> Optional[MessageSignature]:
-        message = sha256(msg.encode()).digest()
+    def sign_raw_msghash(self, msghash: HexBytes) -> Optional[MessageSignature]:
+        """
+        follow: https://github.com/ApeWorX/ape/pull/1966/files#diff-c308960cdf9376a4c05b2bb028a5a79e22c8a12b4c99633580062ec04ab613e2R60
+
+        AccountAPI has check_message to do a round trip check to make sure sig is correct and
+        that the address is returning what we want
+        """
         response = self.kms_client.sign(
             KeyId=self.key_id,
-            Message=message,
+            Message=msghash,
             MessageType='DIGEST',
             SigningAlgorithm='ECDSA_SHA_256',
         )
         return response
 
+    def sign_message(self, msg: Any, **signer_options) -> Optional[MessageSignature]:
+        message = None
+        if isinstance(msg, str):
+            message = sha256(msg.encode()).digest()
+        elif isinstance(msg, dict):
+            message = sha256(json.dumps(msg).encode('utf-8')).digest()
+        elif isinstance(msg, bytes):
+            message = sha256(msg).digest()
+        elif isinstance(msg, int):
+            message = sha256(
+                msg.to_bytes((msg.bit_length() + 7) // 8, byteorder='big')
+            ).digest()
+        if message:
+            signable_message = SignableMessage(
+                version=(0x00).to_bytes(1, byteorder='big'),
+                header=self.address.encode('utf-8'),
+                body=message,
+            )
+            eip_message = _hash_eip191_message(signable_message)
+            response = self.sign_raw_msghash(eip_message)
+            signature = response['Signature']
+            r = signature[-64:-32]
+            s = signature[-32:]
+            for v in [27, 28]:
+                # WORK IN PROGRESS HERE
+                vrs = int(v).to_bytes(1, 'big') + r + s
+                message_signature = MessageSignature.from_vrs(vrs)
+                breakpoint()
+                try:
+                    if self.check_signature(msg, message_signature):
+                        return response
+                except:
+                    continue
+
+            raise ValueError("Signature failed to verify")
+        raise ValueError("Invalid message type")
+
     def sign_transaction(self, txn: TransactionAPI, **signer_options) -> Optional[TransactionAPI]:
         """
         To be implemented
+        EIP-191 -> Describing a text based message to sign
+
+        EIP-712 -> Subclass of EIP-191 messages. First byte is a specific value
+        implemented in the EIP712 Package
+
+        Break EIP-712 down further into a raw hash
+
+        Through EthAccount?
         """
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 399ba5a..c858fc2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     install_requires=[
         "importlib-metadata ; python_version<'3.8'",
         "boto3>=1.34.79,<2",
-        "eth-ape>=0.1.0b3",
+        "eth-ape>=0.7.0",
         "eth-utils>=2.3.1,<3",
         "pydantic>=2.5.2,<3",
     ],  # NOTE: Add 3rd party libraries here