Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles is the story of a woman born to rule a nation and the glorious pageant of love and tragedy that followed in her wake. Mary's beauty inspired poetry yet her birthright engendered hideous treachery and terrible, bloody murder. This novel is Margaret George's magnificent recreation of the life of one of history's greatest legends. A woman accused of murdering her husband to marry her lover. A woman who became Queen six days after her birth in 1542 only to be beheaded forty years later on the orders of her cousin, Elizabeth I ...