A Cruel Courtship - first UK edition

by Candace Robb - signed

Written by the highly acclaimed author of the Owen Archer medieval mysteries series, in this novel, Candace Robb gives us the third volume of the Margaret Kerr series.

Scotland, 1297. In the weeks leading up to the battle of Stirling Bridge, Margaret Kerr takes up residence in Stirling to discover why the informer who has been providing Wallace and Murray with details of the English plans has become unreliable. She's accepted the undertaking at the request of James Comyn, kinsman of the deposed king of Scots. It is an important and difficult mission, for who holds Stirling Castle holds Scotland, and a battle for the castle is imminent. Margaret's loyalty is tested when her estranged husband, Roger, is killed, and she suspects James is his murderer. Now her spying role is duplicitous and doubly dangerous...

Book has black boards, title in gold on the spine. Jacket is price intact and protected in mylar.