A daughter who cannot escape her past.
Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a keeper of secrets. A Highlander by birth and a Lowlander by marriage, she honors the auld ways, even as doubts and fears stir deep within her.
Her husband, Lord Donald, has secrets of his own, well hidden from the household, yet whispered among the town gossips.
His mother, the dowager Lady Marjory, hides gold beneath her floor and guilt inside her heart. Though her two abiding passions are maintaining her place in society and coddling her grown sons, Marjory’s many regrets, buried in Greyfriars Churchyard, continue to plague her.
One by one the Kerr family secrets begin to surface, even as bonny Prince Charlie and his rebel army ride into Edinburgh in September 1745, intent on capturing the crown.
A timeless story of love and betrayal, loss and redemption, flickering against the vivid backdrop of eighteenth-century Scotland , Here Burns My Candle illumines the dark side of human nature, even as hope, the brightest of tapers, lights the way home.
I love historical fiction that makes me want to do research for more information. Liz Curtis Higgs accomplished that with this story. It takes a few chapters to set up the story and get to know all the characters but it pays off. You will find yourself getting very involved with the characters and begin to care what happens to them. There is a glossary at the end that helps with the Scottish vocabulary.LIZ CURTIS HIGGS is the author of twenty-seven books with three million copies in print, including: her best-selling historical novels, Thorn in My Heart, Fair Is the Rose, Christy Award-winner Whence Came a Prince, and Grace in Thine Eyes, a Christy Award finalist; My Heart’s in the Lowlands: Ten Days in Bonny Scotland, an armchair travel guide to Galloway; and her contemporary novels, Mixed Signals, a Rita Award finalist, and Bookends, a Christy Award finalist. Visit the author’s extensive website .
This was book was provided for review by WaterBrook Multnomah.
3 comments:
You know what's so crazy??? I've never heard of this author before but a few weeks ago I picked up Book 1&2 of this series from the library sale...now I see this book everywhere!!!!! Can't wait to read them!
I like that kind of historical too, those that make me wanna google ;)
This is the second time I saw this book, but I can't remember where else I saw it. I'm putting you down for the recommendation. This sounds great.
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