Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, siding with bonnie Prince Charlie who is bent on taking his rightful throne, widow Lady Marjory and her daughters-in-law (Lady Elisabeth Kerr and Janet) are left in a hostile town after her sons enlist. Once again, I didn't read enough of the synopsis to get that this is (very) loosely based on the book of Ruth, and it didn't hit me until the last couple of chapters.
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.Ī 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. 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. His mother, the dowager Lady Marjory, hides gold beneath her floor and guilt inside her heart. Her husband, Lord Donald, has secrets of his own, well hidden from the household, yet whispered among the town gossips. A Highlander by birth and a Lowlander by marriage, she honors the auld ways, even as doubts and fears stir deep within 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.Ī 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.Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a keeper of secrets.
Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a keeper of secrets.
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