K.M. del Mara
In the fourteenth century Scotland, a feisty red-headed girl is raised in a remote glen on the Isle of Arran by a reclusive guardian. Her illustrious parents, indeed her very existence, must be hidden from vicious relatives, including her birth motherâ€™s sadistic husband, and the vengeful Edward I, King of England. ,Her preconceived ideas actually cloud her viewpoint. At first she and friend Tom are peripheral to the Scot rebellion, but sink deeper into the conflict. Finally the warâ€™s brutalities demonstrate painfully that they can neither isolate themselves on their island nor stand aside and watch. She has been short-sighted in more ways than one. The ideals she held may not answer in the long view, and what had once seemed true to her was not what it seemed.,This is half of a pair from the collection "The Silent Grove". Both books weave fiction around real people and events. Central to both stories are wars for independence. The other book concerns a family of Loyalists fleeing to Montreal from New York in 1775.
Whitebeam (The Silent Grove)