num_pages: 420
description: Mary Stuart was just five years old when she was sent to France to be raised alongside her future husband. But when the frail young king dies eighteen-year-old Mary is stripped of her title as Queen of France and set adrift in the harsh world alone. Determined to reign over what is rightfully hers Mary returns to Scotland. Hopingthat a husband will help her secure the coveted English throne she marries again but the love and security she longs for elude her. Instead the fiery young queen finds herself embroiled in a murder scandal that could cost her the crown. And her attempts to bargain with her formidable sister queen Elizabeth I of England could cost her her very life.
language: English
title: The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary Queen of Scots
publisher: Harcourt Children's Books