SHE LOST EVERYTHING SHE LOVED.
HE HAD EVERYTHING SHE NEEDED.
BUT COULD SHE FIND THE COURAGE TO TRUST HIM?
Stepping from a battered coach on a rainy April eve, newly widowed Elisabeth Kerr must begin again, without husband or title, property or fortune. She is unafraid of work and gifted with a needle, but how will she stitch together the tattered remnants of her life? And who will mend her heart, torn asunder by betrayal and deception?
Elisabeth has not come to Selkirk alone. Her mother-in-law, Marjory Kerr, is a woman undone, having buried her husband, her sons, and any promise of grandchildren. Dependent upon a distant cousin with meager resources, Marjory dreads the future almost as much as she regrets the past. Yet joy still comes knocking, and hope is often found in unexpected places.
Then a worthy hero steps forward, rekindling a spark of hope. Will he risk his reputation to defend two women labeled as traitors to the Crown? Or will a wealthy beauty, untainted by scandal, capture his affections?
The heartrending journey of the Kerr women comes to a glorious finish in Mine Is the Night, a sparkling gem of redemption and restoration set in eighteenth-century Scotland.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Summary
I LOVE this book! It is the second in a two book series that brings the Biblical story of Ruth to life in eighteenth century Jacobite Scotland. If you like to read Scottish historical fiction, Liz Curtis Higgs has written an emotionally compelling novel with intense and accurate detail. Her use of the Scottish brogue is so well done that you can imagine yourself to be right in the midst of the book's Scottish characters. As with everyone of Higgs's fiction books that I have read, it is a book that had me reading voraciously to find out how she works out the plot, yet, on the other hand, as I neared the end , found myself sad that it was coming to an end. Another aspect that makes this novel and its predesessor such good reads is Higgs's use of the Ruth story. The reader does not need to be familiar with the Ruth story in
the Bible to be able to enjoy or appreciate the story line. It stands alone! However, because I am familiar with the beautiful story of Ruth (it is one of my favorites), I much enjoyed trying to guess at how Higgs was going to work out the story-line Scottish style. Highly recommend!