W.H.Smith - Fiona McDonald

Katie Cameron - Fiona McDonald

 Katie Cameron", the author's second novel, is a historical romance, the story of a girl born in Inverness, Scotland in 1845 to a Scottish father and French American mother. Shortly after the untimely death of her much loved father, Katie is taken by her mother, Isabelle, to live with close relatives in her native Louisiana just before the outbreak of the Civil War there in 1861.

The fast moving tale details the many trials and tribulations faced by this young and vulnerable woman during a thirteen year period in America, initially in the wartorn south, notably in New Orleans and latterly in the north in Boston. It narrates the joys and anguishes of her relationships with the dashing Clark Boyd and with Frank Dempster, both of them Army officers but one with the Confederacy and the other with the Union. Love, marriage and motherhood are all deeply affected by the four year war which the author has researched assiduously and through visits to the area