Shake The Earth

Based on the life of Margaret Helm SHAKE THE EARTH is a groundbreaking novel about one womans resilience in the face of insurmountable obstacles as Indian Country died and the city of Chicago rose from the ashes of Fort Dearborn. She comes of age on the edge of the frontier a part of a mixed community that cannot survive the onslaught of white incursion and greed. Margaret will lose everything she knows and then search for a new identity in what will be for her a foreign country with opinions she does not share. Through it all she searches for a man she cannot forget striving against impossible odds to achieve their one shared goal: to own a piece of land to call their own.