Scarred Vessels

Life on the homefront during war is hard enough, but Lydia Saunders complicates matters by burdening herself with the guilt from her father’s sins. When soldiers deliver the news of her husband’s death, Lydia faces managing their plantation as well as parenting their young daughter and unborn child alone. 

Elaine Marie Cooper’s novel, Scarred Vessels, shares the story of how Lydia handles the struggles of faith, family, and farm with grace and dignity. She finds love after loss, but when she and her new husband Micah rescue a slave baby, they discover their lives are endangered from an unsuspected source.

The threat sends Lydia and Micah and their entire household on a life-or-death trek across the wintry New England landscape that will keep readers turning pages until they reach the end of the book.