Voices in the Fire: A Novel

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Abstract

**Warning: The language in this book represents the time period and is not considered acceptable.**

**Warning: Some readers may find certain scenes in this book disturbing.**

Some of the chapters are set in the modern day, but the rest of the story is a narrative that takes place during the British and Second Spanish Periods following the lives, loves, joys, and sorrows of British settlers excited to start life a-new in St. Augustine, and their slaves. Cora Lee Westerby and her parents are some of the colonists, and they are and the others are devastated when the lives they built for themselves come to an end with the ceding of Florida back to the Spanish. But not all the British colonists want to leave and they stay as long as possible before being forced to go to Nova Scotia and start over again.

Local locations visited or mentioned include, but are not limited to the Matanzas River, the Castillo de San Marcos, Anastasia Island, Episcopal Trinity Church, Treasury Street, and the Huguenot Cemetery.

Creator

Title

Voices in the Fire: A Novel

Contributor

Marie-Claude Jacques, cover designer

Publisher

Montreal: Viveka Publishing

Date

Format

Paperback book

Language

English

Audience

Subject

Historical

Coverage

British Period
2nd Spanish Period
Contemporary, Adult

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Bibliographic Citation

Masson, C.J. Voices in the Fire: A Novel. Montreal: Viveka Publishing, 2016.

Citation

C. J. Masson, “Voices in the Fire: A Novel,” St. Augustine Fiction, accessed June 12, 2025, https://staugustinefiction.omeka.net/items/show/254.

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