Hundreds of millions of years ago, the Dover Fault was
formed - a geological formation which stretches across the Island of
Newfoundland from Dover in the northeast to Hermitage Bay in the south. Along
this fault line, large underground caverns may have been formed. The Warm Place
is a story about a band of Beothuk people who survived in the wilderness of
Newfoundland to the present day without being discovered by living in these
underground caverns. It imagines how they have walked amongst us and influenced
us for the past two hundred years. The book details the struggles they
underwent to remain undiscovered, and the ends to which they went to protect
their secret location. As the modern age crept upon them, airplanes flew over them,
and hunters on all –terrain vehicles encountered them, they had a difficult
decision to make-to fight fiercely to remain unknown, to melt into the modern
world, or to do both. The Warm Place is the final book in The Beothuk Trilogy.
The first two books in the trilogy, Bello Maro and The Mark of Time, can be
read in either order and are not dependent on each other to be understood and
enjoyed. The Warm Place can also be read independent of the first two books;
however, the story has nuances and situations that are better appreciated if
you are familiar with the characters in the first two books.
