A native Vermonter, Sandra Bishop loves the outdoors and history with equal passion. She can't pass up a historical site or a museum and believes all roads lead somewhere interesting. She devours books and haunts libraries when she isn't traveling.

With her Air Force husband, she spent eighteen years traveling and "setting up camp" in such diverse places as Massachusetts, Florida, Northern California, Germany, Michigan, Southern California and, now, Oklahoma.

Her first love is Native American history. Growing up in Vermont on the banks of the Connecticut River, summer days found her climbing into her favorite tree and letting her imagination roam. She envisioned Algonquins tramping along the river bank and slipping in and out of the shadows. An only child, she filled her daydreams with these imaginary people who shared her passion for the woods and the rivers and mountains around her.

By age 11, she was picking up her pen and writing about them. She always thought she'd grow up and outgrow her need to scribble down stories. Instead, she's turned a lifelong obsession into a full-time job. When she's not writing, she's researching. Her books are a celebration of the seasons, the land and the men and women who shaped it.

Her fans praise her authenticity, her attention to detail and the vividness of her settings. They claim they feel as though they've stepped back in time and were there.

The book she's currently working on, like her first book, takes place in colonial Pennsylvania and deals with the Treaty of Lancaster and the time of unrest just prior to the French and Indian Wars.

Caught between two worlds, Susannah Jacobs must make a choice. Her husband will take her back out of duty, but the Algonquin warrior, who has claimed her as his woman, will cross the rivers and mountains to find her. Nothing will prevent Tonnewa from coming for her. Nothing will prevent Susannah from returning to him.

Married at fifteen to a man twice her age, Susannah has lost one baby. Now pregnant again, she's taken captive by Algonquins. Far from home and alone, she fears for her life and that of her unborn child. Tonnewa takes her as his woman rather than see her put to death.

Tonnewa wants both the woman and the child. Susannah has known neither kindness nor gentleness and never expected it from a savage. She will give up her whole way of life for him. He will remake his for her.

Romantic Times called BELOVED SAVAGE "quietly powerful", "well-crafted" and "authentic".

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