-Writer of Historical Fiction-
BETH CAMP
THE BOOKS
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Standing Stones
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Deidre Scott returns home to the Orkneys in 1842, only to find that England’s Industrial Revolution has come to her island home. She is misunderstood and alienated from her family on an island rapidly being transformed by Lord Gordon, a second son, ambitious to replace crofters with sheep.
Befriended by Lady Alice, Deidre begins to teach at the local parish school. She is drawn to handsome Mac McDonnell, a charismatic fisherman who speaks out against the clearances. Evictions lead to a violent protest. A boy is killed, Mac is arrested, his boat confiscated, and his home destroyed. Deidre must decide if she can act on her faith in Mac, whatever the personal costs.
Years of Stone
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Shackled, alone, transported to Van Diemen's Land for protesting evictions in the Orkneys, Mac McDonnell is surprised when Deidre, his fiancé, follows him. Their new lives begin with a shipwreck outside Hobart Town, but Mac is quickly absorbed into the penal colony’s worst prison.
Deidre, befriended by Lady Jane Franklin, the wife of the famous explorer and Lieutenant Governor John Franklin, first finds work at Cascades Female Factory. Deidre is determined to help Mac, while Mac struggles to survive. At what cost does Deidre find a way to help Mac?
Rivers of Stone
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The Mermaid Quilt & Other Tales
ISBN-1479180971 Kindle
ISBN 10: 1479180971
Mermaids permeate these stories and poems: A grieving artist sleeps under a mermaid quilt. A mermaid argues with a scholar. A pottery maker’s daughter befriends a mysterious stranger. A cowboy falls in love with the last mermaid. Two young girls discover a carved mermaid at a garage sale. A mermaid finds respite in a tree. And we discover what mermaids eat.
From the frozen Arctic to Mexico, Scotland, Russia, Brazil, and the United States, these delicate stories and poems, sometimes funny, sometimes dark, shaped by myth from long ago, speak of love, revenge, and redemption. Written for adults, they unravel the heart songs of people who have been buffeted by life. They reinforce our yearning for something good and beautiful, and they reveal a fragile line between reality and magic.