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Beth Trissel

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August 22, 1956 in The United States

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http://www.bethtrissel.com

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Romance, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction

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The rich history of Virginia. My passion for the past and those who ha...more

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I’m a historical/light paranormal romance author with the Wild Rose Press: http://www.thewildrosepress.com/

I have 10 releases out with more to follow this year. And I've self-pubbed several Indie titles.

Married to my high school sweetheart, I live on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley surrounded by my children, grandbabies, and multiple animals. The rich history of Virginia and the people who journeyed here from far beyond her borders are at the heart of my inspiration.

My fascination with Colonial America, particularly stirring tales of the frontier and the Shawnee Indians, is an early and abiding one. My English, Scot-Irish ancestors had interactions with this tribe, including family members taken captive. These accounts inspired my passion....more I’m a historical/light paranormal romance author with the Wild Rose Press: http://www.thewildrosepress.com/

I have 10 releases out with more to follow this year. And I've self-pubbed several Indie titles.

Married to my high school sweetheart, I live on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley surrounded by my children, grandbabies, and multiple animals. The rich history of Virginia and the people who journeyed here from far beyond her borders are at the heart of my inspiration.

My fascination with Colonial America, particularly stirring tales of the frontier and the Shawnee Indians, is an early and abiding one. My English, Scot-Irish ancestors had interactions with this tribe, including family members taken captive. These accounts inspired my passion. Intrigued with all things Celtic, much of my writing features these early Scot-Irish forebears who settled in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and surrounding mountains, spreading into Tennessee and the Carolinas.

This absorption with Colonial America also extends to the high drama of the Revolution. My ancestors fought and loved on both sides of that sweeping conflict. My research into the Southern face of the war was partly inspired by my great-great-great grandfather, Sam Houston, uncle of the famous Sam, who kept a journal of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina, 1781, that is used by historians today.

Moreover, I'm intrigued by ghost stories, and Virginia has more tales than any other state. I find myself asking if the folk who’ve gone before us are truly gone, or do some still have unfinished business in this realm? And what of the young lovers whose time was tragically cut short, do they somehow find a way? Love conquers all, so I answer ‘yes.’

Thus began my ‘Somewhere’ series. In book two of that series, Somewhere My Lass, I journeyed back to 1602 Scotland and more deeply explored my Scottish roots. In historical romance Red Bird’s Song, I honed in on my early American roots in a story featuring the Scots-Irish and an Indian attack that happened to my ancestors in the colonial Virginia frontier. More recently, I ventured back into my British ancestry with my first historical set in England, Into the Lion’s Heart.

My recent release, a short American historical romance, The Lady and the Warrior, is out at Amazon Kindle. *Cover by my talented daughter Elise.

More recently, I self published a historical/paranormal romance, The Bearwalker's Daughter, also at Kindle, cover by daughter Elise.

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Books by Beth Trissel

Average rating: 4.28 · 191 ratings · 70 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Through the Fire 4.26 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Somewhere My Love 4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Somewhere My Lass 4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Red Bird's Song 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Enemy of the King 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Daughter of the Wind 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	somewhere the bells ring 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Lady and the Warrior 3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Into the Lion's Heart 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Bearwalker's Daughter 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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Somewhere My Love published by the Wild Rose Press (Romance)

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Description: Star-crossed lovers have a rare chance to reclaim the love cruelly denied them in the past, but can they grasp this brief window in time before it is too late? Newly arrived at Foxleigh, the gracious old Wentworth home in Virginia, British born Julia Morrow is excited at the prospect of a summer working as a guide in the stately house and herb garden. She quickly discovers the historic plantation holds far more. She becomes obsessed with the portrait of handsome Cole Wentworth, killed in a quarrel over the lovely English lady, Julia Maury, two hundred years ago. Then she meets his double, William, the only remaining Wentworth heir. Somehow, Julia must persuade Will that their fates are entwined with those of Cole Wentworth and Julia Maury, and that the man who killed his ancestor has returned to enact the deadly cycle again, or she will lose him twice. The blade is about to fall.

The Bearwalker's Daughter (Romance)

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Description: Timid by nature—or so she thinks—Karin McNeal hasn’t grasped who she really is or her fierce birthright. A tragic secret from the past haunts the young Scots-Irish woman longing to learn more of her mother's death and the mysterious father no one will name. The elusive voices she hears in the wind hint at the dramatic changes soon to unfold in the mist-shrouded Alleghenies in Autumn, 1784. Jack McCray, the wounded stranger who staggers through the door on the eve of her twentieth birthday and anniversary of her mother's death, holds the key to unlock the past. Will Karin let this handsome frontiersman lead her to the truth and into his arms, or seek the shelter of her fiercely possessive kinsmen? Is it only her imagination or does someone, or something, wait beyond the brooding ridges—for her?

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View from the Medicine Lodge is a soul-stirring, poetic, wise collection of Indian stories and life experiences from the heart of Jim Great Elk Waters: "Our religion is not of paint and feathers. It is a thing of the heart." Once begun, this inward tr...more
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