Where Stillness Speaks

WHERE STILLNESS SPEAKS, Inspired by original Shaker journalsBy Margaret C.

PriceExperiencing a mystical flight through time to a Shaker utopia (Civil War, 1863), an investigative journalist discovers a secret that frees her from demons of her past, empowering her to speak her truth in WHERE STILLNESS SPEAKS, historical fiction.

The novel unfolds a woman's transformational healing journey in two different time periods.

Present day at the authentically restored Shaker village of Pleasant Hill, and the Past, a short time after the horrific battle of Perryville.

WHERE STILLNESS SPEAKS is a love story played out against the backdrop of a Shaker utopia.

It is a utopia of time-travel, of places where the skin between the worlds is thin, a place apart from modern day chaos and violence.

The core values of the Shaker utopia (respect for the earth, pacifism, racial and sexual equality, belief in a spirit world) resonate still today.

The novel invites the reader to Pleasant Hill where Trappist monk Thomas Merton wandered among the abandoned buildings and "e;listened to the Silence"e; while sitting on a chair made by someone "e;perfectly capable of believing an Angel could come and sit down on it."e;