Queen's Play Author:Dorothy Dunnett Outlawed Scottish soldier of fortune, Francis Crawford of Lymond is sent to France as the one man Mary of Guise can trust to protect her young daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots, from assassination. — Knowing that the nearer he comes to unmasking the would-be murderer the more he exposes the royal child and himself to mortal danger, Lymond embarks on... more » a shifting and treacherous game of hide and seek.
Meanwhile the secrets of his family's past threaten to snare him in a web of their own.« less