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.
**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
2nd Spanish Period
Contemporary, Adult
Has Version
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Bibliographic Citation
Masson, C.J. Voices in the Fire: A Novel. Montreal: Viveka Publishing, 2016.
Collection
Citation
C. J. Masson, “Voices in the Fire: A Novel,” St. Augustine Fiction, accessed June 12, 2025, https://staugustinefiction.omeka.net/items/show/254.