A Scattering of Light
A Crockett's Landing Novel
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 1734
Mourning her wayward brother’s 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, she’s unprepared to find another Scotsman, gravely ill, left on deck untended. Reluctantly compelled, Verity purchases his indenture too, meaning to provide him the compassionate death denied her brother.
Only he doesn’t die.
The Scotsman’s survival upends Verity’s carefully circumscribed life, while he wakes to find his world shattered beyond recognition. As they seek to piece together 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?
“I’ve been eagerly looking forward to Lori Benton’s next novel, and her new release lives up to everything I expected from this author. A narrative that sweeps readers from the Isle of Skye to Virginia, A Scattering of Light is the first book of what promises to be an epic historical romance series of the American frontier in the decades leading up to the French and Indian War. Beautifully envisioned, with evocative depictions of compelling characters set against a background of true historical events and underlaid by deep spiritual themes, A Scattering of Light is a must-read for all lovers of gripping historical fiction.”