A Scattering of Light: A Crocketts Landing Novel

ISBN: 1962845303

Author: Benton, Lori

Condition: New

A Scottish drover spirited into servitude. A young Quaker woman wounded by loss. Their meeting will leave no heart unchallenged, no life unchanged.Colonial Virginia 1734Mourning her wayward brothers death, Verity Wilde has turned her back on Williamsburg society, striving to live by her notion of true religion: to keep oneself unspotted from the world. But when she boards a ship to claim an indentured Scottish clerk, shes unprepared to find another Scotsman, starved and gravely ill, left on deck untended. With scarcely more knowledge of the man than his name and place of origin-William Crockett of Skye-pity compels Verity to purchase his indenture too, meaning to provide the compassionate death denied him by the ships crew. Only he doesnt die.Will Crocketts survival upends Veritys carefully circumscribed life, while he awakens to find his world shattered beyond recognition. As they seek to reconcile their broken pasts, bitterness and fear vie with hope to chart their futures. Can they find the courage to trust each other, and a God who scatters light in the darkness?