![]() The hair on the back of Marjory’s neck rose. Her maidservant answered in a breathless rush of words, “They’re moving the bank’s effects to the castle.” She squinted but could not read the clock on the mantelpiece. ![]() The coals in the fireplace had faded to a dull glow. Lady Marjory Kerr heard a frantic tapping at the bedchamber door, then her name, spoken with marked urgency.Īt this hour? Marjory lifted her head from the pillow, her gaze drawn to the wooden shutters, closed for the night. ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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. ![]() ![]() Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a keeper of secrets. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |