Tidewater - Original Scratchboard Art

Tidewater - Historical Fiction / Bodice Ripper

Materials used: 6x6 inch Black-coated Ampersand board and scratching tools.

This is one of the many scratchboard art illustrations I have been commissioned by The Gardner Francis Fox Library to do book covers for. This is book #142 of 156 paperback novels being transcribed by The Gardner Francis Fox Library.

A FLAME IN THE HEART

Beautiful, red-haired Maggie Langdon came to Virginia as an indentured servant in the hold of a leaky ship sailing out of Dublin Bay. Brutalized by a drunken landowner who was above the law, flight to the Colonies was the only way out. Still in her teens when she left the poverty of her native Ireland, she was to be little better than a slave in Virginia. But Maggie Langdon had a dream. Some day, no matter what, she would be a lady, respected and very rich. There was nothing she wouldn't do to make her dream come true. Nothing at all.