Flower o' the Heather: A Story of the Killing Times

A first-person narrator recalls experiences during the late seventeenth-century repression of covenanting worship, observing public trials, forced marches, and coastal drownings that test conscience and courage. Through interconnected episodes—tavern scenes, private conventicles, highway pursuits, imprisonments, escapes, sea crossings, and domestic moments of love and loss—the narrative follows a circle of villagers, soldiers, and ministers whose faith and relationships endure amid violence and legal cruelty. Themes of sacrifice, moral conflict, communal solidarity, and the costs of resistance are developed in short, episodic chapters that blend action with reflective recollection.