The second book in the world-famous Lymond Chronicles, which bring to life sixteenth-century history through the eyes of one man: Francis Crawford of Lymond. Menaced by England and riven by internal discord, Scotland in 1548 clung to a single hope of survival as a nation - an alliance with France to be sealed by the betrothal of the five-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Dauphin. But once in France, Mary suffers a series of ominous 'accidents'. The one man Mary's mother, the Dowager Queen, feels she can trust to procter her daughter, now seven, is Francis Crawford. Lymond is dispatched to France and embarks upon a nightmare game of hide-and-seek at the very heart of the glittering, decadent court of Henri II.
- ISBN10 067977744X
- ISBN13 9780679777441
- Publish Date 29 April 1997 (first published December 1964)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 14 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Vintage Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 448
- Language English