Lord James - Hardcover

An enthralling and gripping story. --Hugh Grant

The story is intelligently novelised, the reconstruction of high quality and the style flawless. Catherine Hermary-Vieille knows how to give her narrative an epic and human dimension befitting the circumstances. --Les Bulletin Des Lettres

A tumultuous novel, written with the scholarship, the masterly construction and subtle sensuality which have endeared the author to us. --La Libre, Belgique

Opening in the Danish dungeon where James raves at the end of his days, the book tells the story of his life from childhood to the betrayal by a spurned lover that leads to his imprisonment. Born in a climate of religious schism the young James Hepburn, Lord of Bothwell, soon finds himself divided between his loyalties and his conscience. Maturing rapidly into a brilliant young man, he is called home from Paris to take his place as Lord Bothwell. Life had taught him to be a fierce warrior and a passionate lover, and James's fate is set in motion when he meets his Queen. A love springs up between them that will overcome religious divides, spill blood, and haunt Bothwell until his dying day.