Beyond the Fall by Diane Scott Lewis
Tamara Ledbetter, dumped by her arrogant husband, travels to Cornwall, England, to research her ancestors. A trip first planned with her soon-to-be ex. While in a neglected cemetery, she scrapes two fallen headstones together to read what’s beneath, faints, and awakes in 1789. Certain she’s caught in a reenactment, she fast discovers she’s in the year of the French Revolution, grain riots in England, miners out of work, and she’s mistrusted by the young farmer, Colum Polwhele, who’s come to her aid. Can a sassy San Francisco gal survive in this primitive time where women have few rights? Could she fall for Colum, a man active in underhanded dealings that involve stolen grain, or will she struggle to return to her own time before danger stalks them both?
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I'm originally from California and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. After having poems and short-stories published in school magazines, I had a short story submitted to a literary festival from my high school. I joined the navy at nineteen and met my future husband while stationed in Nea Makri Greece. We raised two boys and lived in Puerto Rico, California and Guam before transferring to Washington, DC. Settling in Virginia, I again pursued my love of writing. I joined the Riverside Writers chapter of the Virginia Writers Club and worked as a free-lance editor. As well as being published in, I edited their second anthology, Riverside Echoes. I designed and edited their website until October 2011. I worked as a historical editor for The Wild Rose Press and wrote book reviews for the
Historical Novel Society's magazine,
Historical Novels Review.
My first novel, The False Light, was published in 2010, followed by my second, Elysium, in 2011.
Without Refuge, the sequel to The False Light was released in March 2012. With my new publisher, I've published Betrayed Countess (formally The False Light) in 2012, The Defiant Lady Pencavel in 2013, and Ring of Stone in 2014, all eighteenth century historical novels. In 2015 my first mystery, The Apothecary's Widow was released. On a Stormy Primeval Shore, published in 2017, is part of the Canadian Brides Series and takes place in New Brunswick. My newest release is a Time-travel, Beyond the Fall.
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