Muck Creek

In 1908 a man in dusty traveling clothes appears at Muck Creek Farm seeking news of his long lost father. There he meets a lonely young woman who finds solace in the root cellar where she makes cherry cordial and is visited by the ghosts of Indigenous ancestral relations. Their story is part of a saga stretching over one hundred years including characters both real and richly imagined.<br /><br />A west coast Nootka trader discovers an Ojibway girl on a river island a girl who has crossed a continent in a series of gripping odysseys. A supply boat blows up and its owner disappears. A young woman nearly dies in obeying her great grandmother's last request.<br /><br />The settings stretch from the Great Lakes and interior rivers of North America to the west coast of Vancouver Island from an earthquake in San Francisco to a fire in Seattle.<br /><br />Meanwhile at Muck Creek Farm a diverse group of settlers are living near an Indian reserve where people in the Nisqually community struggle to maintain their history and survival.<br /><br />Muck Creek is a story rich in quest in romance and in historical embellishments - events that not only happened but how they might have happened.