A Scattering of Light

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, starved and gravely ill, left on deck untended. With scarcely more knowledge of the man than his name and place of origin—William Crockett of Skye—pity compels Verity to purchase his indenture too, meaning to provide the compassionate death denied him by the ship’s crew. Only he doesn’t die.

Will Crockett’s survival upends Verity’s carefully circumscribed life, while he awakens to find his world shattered beyond recognition. As they seek to reconcile 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?

1. Opening Credits
2. Dedication
3. Introduction
4. Part 1: Drops of the Ocean
5. Chapter 1
6. Chapter 2
7. Scotland—September 1734: Nine weeks earlier
8. Chapter 3
9. Scotland —September 1734: Nine weeks earlier
10. Chapter 4
11. Scotland —October 1734: Seven weeks earlier
12. Chapter 5
13. Chapter 6
14. Scotland —October 1734
15. Chapter 7
16. Scotland —October 1734
17. Chapter 8
18. Chapter 9
19. Chapter 10
20. Chapter 11
21. Chapter 12
22. Chapter 13
23. Chapter 14
24. Chapter 15
25. Scotland —Autumn 1733: Eighteen months ago
26. Chapter 16
27. Chapter 17
28. Part 2: Shadows of the Substance
29. Chapter 19
30. Chapter 20
31. Chapter 21
32. Chapter 22
33. Chapter 23
34. Part 3: Beams of the Sun
35. Chapter 24
36. Chapter 25
37. Chapter 26
38. Chapter 27
39. Chapter 28
40. Chapter 29
41. Chapter 30
42. Chapter 31
43. Chapter 32
44. Chapter 33
45. Chapter 34
46. Chapter 35
47. Epilogue
48. Closing Credits