Nancy Allen and the Cherokee Trail of Tears

Shirley Roney will be here Sunday, October 18
from 2:00 to 5:00pm to sign her new book, Nancy Allen and the Cherokee Trail of Tears.

A multi-racial love story set in the early 19th Century, “Nancy Allen and the Cherokee Trail of Tears” is a racey, historical romance novel about a free-spirited, red-haired Scottish firecracker and a handsome Cherokee soldier who, along with 500 other Cherokee warriors, keeps Andrew Jackson from getting his butt kicked by the Redstick Creeks at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. Based on the lives of the authors’ great-great grandparents, the novel exposes a medley of half truths in the historical record regarding Andrew Jackson and the Cherokee warriors without whom the United States probably would have lost the War of 1812. Told through the eyes of a spunky mission child abandoned by her mother when she was five years old and raised by an abolitionist preacher named Valentine Allen, who forsook his career as a Law Professor at Yale to serve as a missionary to the Indian Nation, the novel puts a face on the 15,000 Cherokee ordered removed from their native homeland in the eastern mountains. Chucked full of corrections in the historical record concerning Cherokee warriors who never bowed to any creature and their subsequent betrayal by a man whose life they saved, “Nancy Allen and the Cherokee Trail of Tears” is a story of young lovers caught up in the most shameful era in American history, that time before Abraham Lincoln of Illinois.