Cold. Ruthless. Deadly. The myth of Lady Macbeth looms large. But behind the villainous portrait stands a real woman. This is her story...
Scotland 1020 AD - King Malcolm II is fading fast. It is North vs South for two families have a claim on the inheritance of his crown. Who will gain the Scottish throne? On the eve of her sixteenth birthday a flushed and nervous Cora MacDuff waits to marry her sweetheart Macbeth. But her dreams are about to be stolen from her as the night she was hoping for turns into a brutal slaughter. In order to reclaim the life she was promised she will learn to use every weapon at her disposal - even her son. The beginning of a brand new Historical fiction series by the bestselling author of the Queens of Conquest series her new trilogy unearths the real women behind Shakespeare's most infamous queens...
Book #1 in Joanna Courtney's Shakespeare's Queens trilogy.