Like a Fire Is Burning

✍ Scribed by Gerald N. Lund

• Book ID: 100173148
• Publisher: Deseret Book Company
• Year: 2014;1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 584 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1590384970

✦ Synopsis

*There was a thunderous crack. Lydia felt the ship shudder beneath her feet, and heard the buildings lining the wharf rattle. She jerked around so hard that the baby lurched within her, jabbing her sharply with pain. For a moment, she could only stare, not comprehending. The sound had come from the harbor's mouth. For a moment there was nothing to see, just the mass of ice blocking their way. Above and behind her she heard the captain shouting, "Every man to his post! To your posts!"

Then, to everyone's utter amazement, the ice jam began to crack. A seam of dark water began to open, piercing first the base, then the wall of ice. It was as if hell itself were being pried open to make way for them.*

This is just one of the many exciting events depicted in this book, the second in the landmark multivolume series The Work and the Glory. Like a Fire Is Burning continues the epic story of the fictional Benjamin Steed family and covers their participation in the...