A Fire in Their Hearts

<p><b>SCOTLAND, 1662.</b><br><b>Hunted, held prisoner and banished for a belief...</b><br><br>As civil war rages and King Charles II tightens his grip on the Church of Scotland, childhood sweethearts Violet and Samuel are swept into a violent struggle for religious freedom. They pledge their hearts to each other - and to a cause that will test their faith, courage and love beyond measure.<br><br>Hunted as rebels, imprisoned behind the walls of the infamous Greyfriars Kirkyard and torn from their homeland, Violet and Samuel are 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 become separated.<br><br>Alone and captive in a foreign land, Violet must summon every ounce of strength to survive the horrors she faces - and to cling to the hope that Samuel is still alive. Can love endure across oceans, through wars and captivity?<br><br><b>A Fire in Their Hearts is a powerful, epic tale of love, faith and survival, inspired by the extraordinary true events of the seventeenth-century Killing Times, by the bestselling author of <i>The Last Witch of Scotland</i>, Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2024.</b><br><br>'<b>Heartfelt and devastating</b> . . . Philip Paris's remarkable story-telling brings some of the darkest episodes in Scottish history memorably to light.'<br><b>S.G. MacLEAN</b>, bestselling author of <i>The Bookseller of Inverness</i><br><br><i>'</i>An utterly heart-wrenching novel.'<br><b>FIONA VALPY</b>, author of <i>The Sky Beneath Us</i></p>