A Fire in Their Hearts: Claiming Their Freedom Was Their Only Crime, (Paperback)

<p><b>"A gripping story."</b> -- <i>The Scotsman</i><br><b>"A poignant love story suffused with a deep, moving humanity."</b> -- <i>The Herald</i><br><b>"A memorable novel."</b> -- <i>The Sunday Times</i></p><p><b>Scotland, 1662.</b></p><p>Hunted, imprisoned, and banished for their beliefs, childhood sweethearts Violet and Samuel are swept into a brutal struggle for religious freedom as civil war rages and King Charles II tightens his grip on the Church of Scotland. They pledge their hearts to each other--and to a cause that will test their faith, courage, and love beyond measure.</p><p>Branded as rebels, Violet and Samuel are imprisoned within the walls of the infamous Greyfriars Kirkyard before being torn from their homeland and sentenced to a life of indentured servitude on the brutal sugar plantations of Barbados. But when their ship wrecks off the coast of Orkney, they are violently separated.</p><p>Alone and held captive in a foreign land, Violet must summon every ounce of strength to survive the horrors she faces--and cling to the hope that Samuel is still alive. Can love endure across oceans, through war, captivity, and loss?</p><p><i>A Fire in Their Hearts</i> is a powerful, epic tale of love, faith, and survival, inspired by the extraordinary true events of the seventeenth-century Killing Times, from Philip Paris, bestselling author of <i>The Last Witch of Scotland</i> and Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2024.</p>

• A Fire in Their Hearts: Claiming Their Freedom Was Their Only Crime, (Paperback)
• Author: Black & White Publishing
• ISBN: 9781785307751
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-10-06
• Page Count: 400