The Minister's Daughter
The Minister's Daughter
Author: Julie Hearn
Desc: “Powers of the air be here now. So mote it be.” Conceived on May Morning Nell is claimed by the piskies and faeries as a merrybegot one of their own. She is a wild child: herb gatherer and healer spell-weaver and midwife . . . and some say a witch. Grace is everything Nell is not. She is the Puritan minister’s daughter: beautiful and refined innocent and sweet-natured . . . to those who think they know her. But she is hiding a secret—a secret that will bring everlasting shame to her family should it ever come to light. A merrybegot and a minister’s daughter—two girls who could not have less in common. Yet their fates collide when Grace and her younger sister Patience are suddenly spitting pins struck with fits and speaking in fevered tongues. The minister is convinced his daughters are the victims of witchcraft. And all signs point to Nell as the source of the trouble. . . . Set during the tumultuous era of the English Civil War The Minister’s Daughter captures the superstition passion madness and magic of a vanished age.