The Witching Hour
Elizabeth Laird
Hardcover
(Macmillan Children's Books, May 1, 2009)
In seventeenth-century Scotland, everyone knows the devil is real.Everyone knows that witches exist.Everyone knows that saying the wrong thing can get you hanged...When fourteen-year-old Maggie’s grandmother is accused of witchcraft, Maggie has to run for her life. With English soldiers on the march, nowhere is safe – certainly not Ladymuir, where her uncle is determined to defy the king. And wherever Maggie goes, disaster follows...A gripping historical novel about a young girl’s journey through the Killing Time.