Examine the Genesis 34 story of Dinah
through a 19th-century Scottish lens...

Davina McKie is a bonny lass of seventeen, mute since childhood and fiercely guarded by her belligerent twin brothers, Will and Sandy. When the lads are forced to depart the glen, Jamie McKie escorts Davina to the Isle of Arran, where her lively cousins, Catherine and Abigail, make her welcome at the manse.

One moonless eve Davina blithely entertains the gentry of Arran with her grandfather’s fiddle, unaware of the dramatic turn her life is about to take.

A story of passion and revenge, of lost innocence and shattered dreams, Grace in Thine Eyes explores the sorrow of unspeakable shame and the gift of immeasurable grace.

A young woman trapped by shame.
Two brothers bent on revenge.
Can her father rescue her?
Or is there only One who can set her free? 

P.S. If you've read Thorn in My Heart, Fair Is the Rose, and Whence Came a Prince, I hope you'll enjoy meeting the next generation of the McKie family. But if a series isn't your style, here's good news: Grace in Thine Eyes is a stand-alone novel, written with new readers in mind. If that's you, sis, get ready for Grace!

From the Publisher, WaterBrook Press...

Grace in Thine Eyes
A timeless tale of passion, revenge, and redemption

When Liz Curtis Higgs emerges from her writing studio after long months absorbed in 19th-century Scotland, she’s often surprised to find modern cars in place of carriages and falling leaves instead of the blooming spring flowers she’s just left in her imagination.

Critics are impressed by the emotional intensity and depth of research found in her historical novels, based on biblical stories and reset in 18th- and 19th-century Scotland. Readers of her three recent bestsellers eagerly awaited Grace in Thine Eyes (March 21, 2006), a stand-alone novel introducing the next generation of the McKie family, even as it parallels the tragic, yet compelling account of Dinah from Genesis 34.

Pitied by some commentators as a victim, chastised by others as a disobedient daughter, the biblical Dinah is a woman whose story is cloaked in mystery. Was it defiant curiosity that made her stray from home, seeking out the “daughters of the land,” or was it simply youthful innocence? When her brothers exacted their revenge, was Dinah greatly relieved or deeply grieved? Did she live in shameful seclusion or was she restored to society? Does her story end in disgrace…or grace?

Not one of those questions is answered in the biblical account, in part because neither Dinah’s voice nor her viewpoint appears in the narrative. Grace in Thine Eyes explores those unanswered questions from Dinah’s story, yet without tampering with Scripture, moving this dramatic tale to the Scottish Lowlands of 1808.

Liz Curtis Higgs is the author of twenty-three books with three million copies in print, including her best-selling historical novels, Thorn in My Heart, Fair Is the Rose, and Whence Came a Prince; her best-selling nonfiction books, Bad Girls of the Bible and Really Bad Girls of the Bible; and two contemporary novels, Mixed Signals, a Rita Award finalist, and Bookends, a Christy Award finalist. An award-winning speaker as well, Liz has addressed 1,500 audiences in all fifty states and eight foreign countries, bringing messages filled with encouragement and hope.