Here Burns My Candle
by Liz Curtis Higgs
It’s been 4 years since Liz
Curtis Higgs’s last novel, and she’s made good
use of that time studying Scottish history and the Scriptures. And now
she
offers a retelling of the beloved Old Testament story of Ruth and Naomi
set in
18th Century Scotland.
Visit the Lowlands in Here Burns My Candle.
View the trailer for Here Burns My Candle here.
My review for this book will be coming next week - I'm slightly behind but trying to catch up.
View the trailer for Here Burns My Candle here.
My review for this book will be coming next week - I'm slightly behind but trying to catch up.
Summary:
A
mother who cannot face her future.
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.
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.
Author Bio:
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 at www.lizcurtishiggs.com.
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Giveaway:
Waterbrook Multnomah has provided me with one copy of Here Burns My Candle by Liz Curtis Higgs to giveaway. Simply comment to enter. Additional entries for following (rss, email, blogger, networked blogs, etc.), tweeting (1 per day), posting on your blog (sidebar is fine). Please comment for each entry - it makes the accounting easier. Giveaway open to US/Canada only. Don't worry if you are first or last - I'm starting to randomize all entries before using random.org to draw a number - so it's more like drawing a name out of a hat. Giveaway runs through April 2, 2010.
Purchase the book online:
This was book was provided for review by
WaterBrook Multnomah.
Giveaway:
Waterbrook Multnomah has provided me with one copy of Here Burns My Candle by Liz Curtis Higgs to giveaway. Simply comment to enter. Additional entries for following (rss, email, blogger, networked blogs, etc.), tweeting (1 per day), posting on your blog (sidebar is fine). Please comment for each entry - it makes the accounting easier. Giveaway open to US/Canada only. Don't worry if you are first or last - I'm starting to randomize all entries before using random.org to draw a number - so it's more like drawing a name out of a hat. Giveaway runs through April 2, 2010.
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