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“No moon in sight,” Donald observed, resting his forehead lightly on the glass.
“No Highlanders either.”
“They’ll arrive soon enough.” Marjory extinguished the candle by her bed,
shrouding the room in darkness. “Sleep while you can, Donald. And keep that bonny wife
of yours close at hand.”
“Aye.” The smile in his voice was unmistakable. “So I shall.”
September 1745
Edinburgh is a bustling city of fifty thousand inhabitants, the narrow
closes and wynds crowded with rich and poor alike. Tongues are wagging over the impending arrival of Charles Edward Stuart—the young pretender to the throne—and his Highland army. Scotland, though bound by English law, is thick with Jacobites, who support the restoration of James and the overthrow
of King George II.
Safely ensconced in their well appointed rooms overlooking the High Street are the Kerrs of Selkirk. Landed gentry from the Scottish Borders, the Kerrs have called Edinburgh home for a decade, all but abandoning their quiet country estate
in favor of Edinburgh’s heady mix of culture, commerce, and political intrigue.
A spiritual famine has inflicted this family, a waning devotion to God. The Kerrs don’t belong in the city, and instinctively they know it. Edinburgh is foreign, unfamiliar, and even dangerous. Yet, they remain.
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.
Lord Donald Kerr has secrets of his own, well hidden from
the household, yet whispered among the town gossips.
Dowager Lady Marjory Kerr 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.
Bound by marriage, then torn asunder by cruel circumstance, the
Kerr women will be forced to depend upon one another. And that's
when things will get verra interesting...
A mother who cannot face her
future.
A daughter who cannot escape her past.
A timeless saga of love and betrayal,
flickering against the vivid backdrop
of eighteenth-century Edinburgh.
Here Burns My Candle is based on the beloved Old Testament story of Naomi and Ruth, set in another time and place to demonstrate the timelessness of God's Word. Scotland forever, dearie!
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