If You Like Native American Historical Romance Novels

You’ve come to the right place.  I’ve labored over several novels, done meticulous research, and written from my heart as I feel profoundly for Native Americans.

To date I have two novels, Through the Fire and Red Bird’s Song, published by The Wild Rose Press that are Colonial Native American Romances with a strong The Last of the Mohican’s flavor and a mystical weave.

The colonial frontier is my particular passion, particularly the Virginia frontier, which used to be vast,  and the Ohio territory.

A third novel, Daughter of the Wind, is a historical fantasy, also carefully researched so the history in it is accurate while the story is also a light paranormal with a bearwalking (shape shifting) Shawnee warrior.

Although Daughter of the Wind is set among the clannish Scots-Irish in the Allegheny Mountains, the story has a strong Native American element and flavor.  As does my short FREE READ, Nighthawk.  Download Nighthawk without charge from the Wild Rose Press.

All of my Native American novels are available as both digital download, ebooks,  and paperbacks from the Wild Rose Press,  Amazon, and other online booksellers.  Your local bookstore can order them in as can your library if you ask them to.

To read the illustrated first chapter from Daughter of the Wind:

To read the illustrated excerpt from Through the Fire:

To read more about the story and inspiration behind Red Bird’s Song:

Each of these books, particularly Red Bird’s Song, were inspired by actual events that occurred to my early American Scots-Irish ancestors in the colonial frontier.   The high drama of the frontier, the power and passions of that time period are deeply stirring to my imagination.   I hope you will enjoy these books while gaining an appreciation for a mostly forgotten time and people.

When I look out the window at the distant ridges of the Alleghenies I remember the people who once roamed those ruggedly beautiful woodlands.  But not only the mountains, the Shenandoah Valley where I live and my family has lived for several hundred years was at once time the frontier.  Many Indian encounters and attacks took place in the valley.  Some to my ancestors and their friends and neighbors.  The Scots-Irish were highly interrelated.


Not to neglect my English ancestors who were also a part of these early dramatic times.  One of them, a Quaker, had visions and was so liked by the Indians they asked him to sit in on some of their treaties knowing he would be fair.  From my studies of history, and given that he lived in colonial Maryland/PA, I have concluded the tribes he was in communication with were the Shawnee, who make up the bulk of my research, and their close allies the Lene Lenape or the Delaware as they are otherwise known. 

A Shawnee historian with whom I once worked told me I should have made the Delaware the subject of my fascination as in his opinion they were nicer, but I have stuck to researching mostly the Shawnee.  Go team!

*Pic of the Allegheny Mountains taken by my mom

*Shoka and Rebecca from Through the Fire

*The release date for Red Bird’s Song is 9-10-2010 however the print is out early at the Wild Rose Press and Amazon.   The ebook will follow and the availability of the novel will spread from the Wild Rose to other booksellers.


*Posted by Beth Trissel