Crowned Queen of Scotland before her first birthday, Mary Stuart is a pawn of empires and a prisoner of destiny. Raised in the gilded courts of France, she returns to a Scotland torn by faith and fire, where her throne is besieged by traitors, her husbands doomed, her heart betrayed. Fleeing to England, she entrusts her fate to her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I—the rival who becomes her jailer. Spanning decades of intrigue and conspiracy, this is the story of ambition, love, and the tragic collision of two queens—of which only one could wear the crown.
