Born in Chipman, New Brunswick, FRANK BAIRD graduated from the University of New Brunswick and New College, Edinburgh. He worked as a Presbyterian minister serving several parishes including Pictou. He was appointed Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in 1930. In addition to writing historical novels, he published short stories in Canadian and American magazines.
Be transported back to Old Pictou, Nova Scotia with this tale of witchery, muscular Christianity, press gangs, and Culloden-haunted memory in an historical novel in the tradition of Sir Walter Scott