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Her name was Mary Tudor.
First of the Tudor queens, she has been known throughout history as Bloody Mary. But does she deserve her vicious reputation?

She was the only daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, and half sister to Edward VI and Elizabeth I. Mary Tudor began her life as the sweetly innocent, pampered princess of Wales—until the age of eleven, when the father she adored cast aside the mother she worshipped, and declared Mary a bastard. Only after years of exile did Mary finally rise to the throne alongside the man who, aside from her father, was her greatest love—and her greatest betrayer.

Told by Mary herself and the people around her, this grand-scale novel takes us back to the glittering court of sixteenth-century England, and tells the tragic story of a fascinating, largely misunderstood woman who withstood the treachery and passion around her to become one of England's most vilified queens...

She was a queen who loved unwisely and did not rule well. But was Mary Stuart guilty of murder?

It is three days after the execution of Mary Stuart and the Streets of London are buzzing with the news. But not everyone is convinced that the scandalized Queen of Scots was guilty of plotting against her cousin, Elizabeth I—or that she was involved in the murder of her husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.

Scottish-born Janet de Ros, wife of a wealthy English merchant, thinks the ravishingly beautiful Mary was merely an innocent bystander, betrayed by the machinations of a disloyal court. Determined to uncover the truth, Janet travels from Fotheringhay Castle to Edinburgh to pursue an investigation that could endanger her life—and bring disgrace to her own family.