The Distant Beacon

Its place in Song of Acadia

The Distant Beacon is book 4 in the Song of Acadia series. It follows The Birthright. It is followed by The Beloved Land. See the full Song of Acadia reading order.

Song of Acadia is a five-book historical series co-written by Janette Oke and novelist T. Davis Bunn, set in 18th-century Nova Scotia during the French and English struggle for control of Acadia. It follows two families on opposite sides of that conflict -- one Acadian, one English -- whose lives become entangled through friendship and eventually romance, against the real historical backdrop of the 1755 Expulsion of the Acadians, one of the defining tragedies of French-Canadian colonial history. Where Oke's solo…