Mine Is The Night by Liz Curtis Higgs Review

Mine Is the Night

by Liz Curtis Higgs

Stepping from a battered coach on a rainy April eve, newly widowed Elisabeth Kerr must begin again, without husband or title, property or fortune. She is unafraid of work and gifted with a needle, but how will she stitch together the tattered remnants of her life? And who will mend her heart, torn asunder by betrayal and deception?

   Elisabeth has not come to Selkirk alone. Her mother-in-law, Marjory Kerr, is a woman undone, having buried her husband, her sons, and any promise of grandchildren. Dependent upon a distant cousin with meager resources, Marjory dreads the future almost as much as she regrets the past. Yet joy still comes knocking, and hope is often found in unexpected places.

  Then a worthy hero steps forward, rekindling a spark of hope. Will he risk his reputation to defend two women labeled as traitors to the Crown? Or will a wealthy beauty, untainted by scandal, capture his affections?

   The heartrending journey of the Kerr women comes to a glorious finish in Mine Is the Night, a sparkling gem of redemption and restoration set in eighteenth-century Scotland.

My first reaction was surprise as I opened up the package waiting at my door.  I was not expecting 442 pages plus a readers guide.  Mine Is The Night was a wonderful historical romance.  The saga started with Here Burns My Candle and is showing a dramatic finish with three weddings and one of the ladies gaining the title “Lady” back. 

As you follow the Kerr ladies through their journey of knocking on a cousin’s door that Marjory has not spoken to in 10 years and never though to “take care” of her while she was a rich “Lady”.  They didn’t know what to expect when they knocked on Annie’s door but were welcomed with half open arms.  A bond is quickly formed and the three become pretty inseprable.

The one thing that I struggled with was that Mine Is The Night was written true to times and I struggled with knowing what some of the words meant.  At the end I found the Scottish Glossary and that kind of disappointed me.  I wish that authors would put this at the front of the book.  After all, that’s how I read and I don’t generally search the back of the book first.

As you move through the book it is quickly predictable for the outcome.  You know who is going to marry who and live happily ever after and that most of the Kerr woman are going to go against normal society rules to do it.  Just because it was predictable doesn’t mean wasn’t able to thoroughly get lost within the book and had the entire book read in two days.  My house may be a disaster but I was able to get lost in this book and never look back.  I am thrilled to have this book under my “belt” and would recommend this book to anybody who enjoys losing themselves in a good book.  I know my mother in law is looking forward to having this waiting on her table when she gets back from vacation.