About When Light Breaks Through: A Salem Witch Trials Story
When Light Breaks Through is free on Kindle October 28-30
In 1692, twelve-year-old Ann Putnam and the other ringleaders of the “afflicted children” bring devastation to Salem Village. Beginning as a daring, adolescent game, their accusations of witchcraft lead to twenty executions and scores of imprisonments, wreck families and create deep and bitter divisions among the people.
Five years later, Joseph Green, a young schoolteacher who is in love and eager to marry, takes on the ministry that no one else wants and with it the mission of healing Salem Village. With some dramatic actions that earn the people’s respect, Joseph makes progress in his quest to bring them together, but he knows that true fellowship will elude them while the hostility from the witch trials casts a shadow over every relationship and encounter. When the opportunity comes, Joseph helps Ann to make an appeal that could finally unite the people.
“When Light Breaks Through is a showcase for Murphy’s mastery of historical events and their consequences over years . . . an intimate and hopeful take on a horrific patch of history.” Booklife by Publisher’s Weekly
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Brenda Murphy is the author of more than twenty books. Her latest include When Light Breaks Through: A Salem Witch Trials Story (2023), Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel (2018), based on the life of the notorious actress Carlotta Monterey, and After the Voyage: An Irish American Story (2016), based on the experience of her immigrant family in the Boston area from 1870 until the 1930s. After teaching at universities in New York and Connecticut, Brenda now lives in Maryland where she enjoys writing full time.