By: Philippa Gregory/Touchstone

Aunique take on one of history’s most maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth’s promise of sanctuary when she flied from rebels in Scotland and found herself imprisoned as a ‘guest’ of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife bess of hardwick. The newly married couple thought that serving as her hosts and jailers would help them in the cutthroat Elizabethan court. To their horror they found that the task nearly bankrupted them and as their home became the epicenter of intrigue against Elizabeth their loyalty to each other and to their sovereign came into question. Will the great spymaster William Cecil link them to the growing conspiracy to free Mary from her illegal imprisonment? Either way they will all face the headsman!

HOT TIP: Suspense meets passion meets political intrigue!

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