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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416509936
ISBN: 1416509933
Label: Pocket Star
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: May 20, 2008
Publisher: Pocket Star
Studio: Pocket Star
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Product Description:
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 Bruce -- emerge 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 MacDonald 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 MacGannon, 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 loyalty -- and her destiny -- lies.
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Good Scottish story line, ok with the history part as well, only complaint is just a bit slow would have been better 100 pages less.
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This was my first book by this author but it will not be my last. Ms. Givens is a wonderful writer who knows how to draw readers into history with excellent narration without overburdening the reader with periodic detail.
The story centers on the lasting, true friendship of two young women from different backgrounds during the turbulent times of William Wallace. (Naturally, as soon as I finished the book, I watched Braveheart for the tenth time!)
The Scottish heroes were ... Read More
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I enjoyed this book very much. Rich setting, wonderful storytelling, interesting characters make for a fascinating recounting of an equally gripping period in history.
I love a book full of periodic detail, and Ms. Givens shows us history without teaching us about it. She takes the reader into the period with skillful writing and draws the reader deeper with wonderful characters.
Basically this is a romance story with rich historical facts that I have been missing in genre ... Read More
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In 1290, trouble begins between Scotland and England when the 7 year old girl Queen of Scotland dies, and two rival factions, those of John Balliol and Robert Bruce, vie for the title of King of Scotland. England's Edward 1, known as Longshanks, seizes the opportunity to step in and demand that whichever candidate wins, he would be subservient to Edward and would rule, only as his vassal. English soldiers flood into Scotland, plundering, raping, destroying and abusing the Scots, until a rebel faction ... Read More
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I gripped the edges of this book as the story developed! Using the internet, I followed along to the different towns, the different castles. I read further and in more detail about the times, the characters and whatever other link appealed to me. I know this is not the story of Braveheart, staring Mel Gibson, but I would like to watch the movie again after reading this book. I did not understand the movie as well as I would have liked and now have a better understanding.
The familial duty ... Read More
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