Book Review – Here Burns My Candle by Liz Curtis Higgs

This week I had the privilege to review a book by one of my favorite Christian fiction authors, Liz Curtis Higgs. Her latest book, Here Burns My Candle, does not disappoint. Higgs once again tells the story of characters in Scotland with a biblical tale superimposed over their lives. This time we’re looking at the story of Naomi and Ruth. Theis book was a delight to read and I never wanted to put it down. Higgs has a way of doing that. Her books are some of the very few romances that I enjoy reading. there is something about the way that she handles the characters that I really love. They are round, believable, and most importantly — real.

Here is the publisher’s summary:

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.

Here Burns My Candle is available for purchase from the publisher.

This was book was provided for review by WaterBrook Multnomah.