The Longing Season

The Longing Season
by Christine Scaub

In the 1740s, British culture allows few options for the son of a merchant ship captain. And in a time of war, a man with John Newton’s experience must serve the king. But Newton’s a man who quotes Virgil and curses God with equal fervor is interested in serving only himself. Mary Catlett simply cannot believe her childhood friend sailed away on a British warship and vanished in Africa. In an account that challenges popular myth, Schaub continues the Music of the Heart series with one of the greatest redemption stories of all time the story of Amazing Grace.