A novel of passion and intrigue at the sophisticated Court of Henry II of France. Sheena McCraggan is sent to France to be a companion to the 14-year-old Mary Queen of Scots at the Court of Henry II. When she arrives, she finds a Court where moral standards have been long forgotten: where she herself is to be used as the bait in a vile plot to ensnare a King—and where even the hideous rites of the Black Mass are put to use...
