Reader Notes ~ "Here Burns My Candle" by Liz Curtis Higgs
Liz Curtis Higgs whisks us away to eighteenth-century Scotland for a spellbinding tale in Here Burns My Candle.
Lady Elizabeth Kerr, a highland beauty, possesses fine clothing, the love of a titled husband and a gentle life. But she is not all she appears, for she follows in secret the auld ways, looks to the moon and worships the Nameless One while outwardly displaying a form of Christian piety. Her husband, Donald, keeps his own secrets — secrets that make him the butt of the town's gossips and cause Elizabeth to question his fidelity.
Dowager Lady Marjory Kerr, Donald's mother, discounts such rumors. She clings to her two sons and her gold and hardens her heart to Elizabeth. But she can't shut out the whispers of her own guilt that beset her, a guilt buried with her husband in Greyfriars Churchyard.
The intrigues of the Jacobite cause press the Kerrs as… (Read my entire review at Book Readers Central.)
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