Shadowbrook: A Novel of Love, War, and the Birth of AmericaFrom the author of the acclaimed novel City of Dreams, the passionate story of Quentin Hale and Nicole Crane, set against the bloody and turbulent backdrop of the French and Indian War. 1754. In a low lying glen in Ohio Country, where both the French and English claim dominion, the first musket ball fired signals the start of a savage seven year conflict destined to dismantle France's overreaching empire and pave the way for the American Revolution.