King Hereafter (144 page)

‘Ransom?’ he said. ‘I am Malcolm, son of King Duncan. I am going to marry you.’

‘Of course,’ she said; and, rising, walked out at his side, and faced her stricken peoples, and saw the hope and the pity born together once more in their eyes.

Edinburgh
20th March 1981

In 1547 Frances Crawford of Lymond returns to defend his native Scotland from the English. Hunted by friend and enemy alike, he leads a company of outlaws in a desperate race to redeem his reputation.

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Lymond is sent to France, where a very young Queen Mary Stuart is sorely in need of his protection. Lymond insinuates himself into the glittering labyrinth of the French court.

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Lymond is dispatched to Malta, to assist in the island’s defense against Turkish corsairs. But he shortly discovers that the greatest threat to the knights lies within their own ranks.

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Lymond cuts a desperate path across the Ottoman empire of Suleiman the Magnificent in search of a kidnapped child, an effort that may place this adventurer in the power of his enemies.

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Between Mary Tudor’s England and the Russia of Ivan the Terrible lies a vast distance indeed, but forces within the Tudor court impel Lymond to Muscovy, where he becomes advisor and general to the half-mad tsar.

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Francis Crawford returns to France to lead an army against England. But even as he succeeds on the battlefield, his haunted past becomes a subject of intense interest to forces in both the French and English courts.

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