When Laura and Ron Lattimer take a long-awaited camping trip with their five-year-old daughter, Kerry Anne, in eastern Washington, they discover the body of a young woman, wrapped in black plastic and bound with rope. Their camping trip is over.
Despite Laura’s fears, Ron drives off alone to get help, but when he returns the next morning with two police officers, they find the tent and campground empty – no wife, no child, and no dead body.
What will Laura do when she awakens to find herself and Kerry being driven to an unknown location? Click HERE to get your copy.
Beth's Other Books
AISN: B08GJ8VRGL (2020)
When precious artifacts go missing at the Museum of Medieval Art in Edinburgh, Sandra Robertson, a newly hired curator, is immediately under suspicion.
When she's asked to help find out who's involved, Sandra ignores her attraction to Neil McDonnell, art crimes investigator assigned to the case, and gets to work. But, after a priceless 16th Century tapestry goes missing, what will they risk to recover the missing artifacts, stop the thefts, and find out who's behind a series of mysterious deaths?
When she's asked to help find out who's involved, Sandra ignores her attraction to Neil McDonnell, art crimes investigator assigned to the case, and gets to work. But, after a priceless 16th Century tapestry goes missing, what will they risk to recover the missing artifacts, stop the thefts, and find out who's behind a series of mysterious deaths?
Love reading historical fiction? These next four books tell the stories of the McDonnell family set in Scotland, Australia, and Canada of the 1840s.
Standing Stones
AISN B00I3RYFW6 (2014)
When Lord Gordon claims his estate in the Orkney Islands, Northern Scotland, in 1841, he evicts tenant farmers (crofters) to make room for sheep. Mac protests the evictions, despite the impact his actions will have on his three brothers, Dougal, Colin, and Jamie -- and his sister, Moira.
When their cottage is torn down and their boat confiscated, how will the McDonnell family survive?
AISN: B00LF3FY4S (2014)
Transported 'over the seas' for protesting evictions on his island home, Mac McDonnell faces a seven year sentence. Alone, uncertain of the future, Mac is surprised when Deidre Scott, his fiancé, follows him to Van Diemen's Land in 1840's Australia.
Deidre is determined to help Mac, but at what cost? Both face challenges beyond their wildest expectations and fears in this rough and tumble penal colony.
AISN: B077M1TFLP (2017)
Catriona disguises herself as a boy to join the Hudson’s Bay Company and follow her husband, Dougal McDonnell, during the fur trade era in the 1840's. Once in Canada, Dougal is sent west to Fort Vancouver with the fur brigade, but Cat remains behind.
Can they be reunited? Will they achieve the dreams that brought them to the wilderness?
He decides to return to Inverness, promising to send for Moira as soon as he can. But Moira doesn't tell him she is pregnant. Can she find him once she leaves their island home?
AISN: B0889TDKR2 (2020)
On March 6, 2020, the Coronavirus became real to our family, and we began to self-quarantine, later called ‘stay-at-home’. A few poems emerged during this first month. On April 1, National Poetry Month began, and Robert Lee Brewer, of Writer’s Digest fame, began his PAD (poem a day) Challenge.
This began my personal goal to write a poem each day. Here you’ll find poems that may make you laugh, think about places and times far from today – from Giza to the Old West, and poems that affirm the beauty of each day.

- Short stories & poems: The Mermaid Quilt & Other Tales.
- Short Story: "Rusalka." Fickle Muses.
- Poems: "The Oracle," "Earth's Hair," "I Come From." Camroc Press Review.
- Poetry Chapbook: Mermaid Reflections.
- Travel Memoir: South American Journey.
- Textbook: Effective Workplace Writing (Houghton Mifflin/Career Education 1996).
- "What Impels You To Write" (A Round of Words in 80 Days)