The fierce struggle for Scotland’s throne leads two women to courageous new destinies in this dramatic and passionate historical romance from award-winning author Kathleen Givens. 1290: Turmoil erupts when the seven-year-old queen of Scotland perishes en route to claim the crown. Two bitter foes John Balliol and Robert Bruceemerge as possible successors, but England’s Edward I has his own designs on Scotland. In London, Edward has expelled all Jews from his kingdom. Rachel de Anjou is heartbroken to leave behind her best friend, Isabel de Burke, and travel with her family to the Scottish border town of Berwick. Danger is everywhere, but the tall, dark Highlander Kieran Mac Donald presents a risk of a different sort. Isabel, appointed as lady-in-waiting to Edward’s queen, Eleanor, is soon immersed in a world of privilege and peril where she attracts the notice of two men Henry de Boyer, an English knight, and Rory Mac Gannon, a Highland warrior and outlaw. Isabel and Rachel are soon reunited in Berwick, but as the enmity between Scotland and England reaches its violent peak, each woman must decide where her loyaltyand her destinylies.
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