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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Sexual Content - 2/5
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Violence - 2/5
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Language - 1/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 1/5
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Summary
Overall Liz Curtis Higgs writes superior historical fiction! This novel, like her other works of historical fiction is set in auld Scotland. Mrs. Higgs masterfully weaves Scottish dialect and nuances throughout the storyline of Here Burns My Candle while she brings to life her vivid characters in a retelling of the ancient Biblical story of Ruth. If you like historical fiction, you will not be disappointed . . . unless you are disappointed that the story has come to an end! But never fear there is a sequel (Mine Is the Night).
Violence Wartime setting with Bonnie Prince Charlie arriving upon the scene to retake Scotland for the Stuarts.
Sexual There are instances of adultery.