Tag: Lori Benton

Following the Jacobite defeat at Culloden, a tall Scotsman named Alex MacKinnon is given the merciful sentence of indentured servitude in the New World. Bound to Edmund Carey, a plantation owner, he learns the trade of blacksmith, nursing a bitterness against both God and his circumstances. Even the itinerant preacher, Reverend Pauling, can’t convince the…