Ruby Takes Chicago is the sequel to Rise! A Girl’s Struggle for More. It’s now the 1920s, and a young Ruby Dinsmore leaves her hometown of Oilton, Oklahoma, and heads for Chicago to make her dreams come true.

In the first book, Ruby, born in 1904, grows up wanting to be a businesswoman and does everything she can to make it happen. At the end of Rise!, Ruby’s family realizes her dreams can only come true in a larger town where a young woman with a college education would be accepted into the workforce.

Once in Chicago, Ruby is surprised that society is still reluctant to accept women working outside the home, even in a big city. Determined to stay true to herself, she takes on life’s challenges in tumultuous times of Prohibition, protests, and women’s rights marches.

Ruby meets like-minded women, and together, they break through the barriers until Ruby lands the perfect job, all amidst discovering the joys of life and love, heartbreak…and love again.