When Catherine, Lady Glenelg is accused of murder in Scotland, what else can her old friend and sister-in-law Lady Appleton do but head for the Border?
“Face Down O’er the Border is just wonderful. Susanna Appleton is as fresh and clever as in the first volume; in fact, I think she has grown more appealing over the years. In addition, the Scots setting provides some new and surprising quirks to historical law. I am already looking forward to the next book.”
–Roberta Gellis, author of Chains of Folly
“Susanna, Lady Appleton sallies forth to the north into a Scottish intrigue that kept me guessing (usually wrong) throughout. Real characters face real perils, interspersed with political machinations and studded with lots of nifty period details. When everything looks at its bleakest, you want Susanna on your side. It is good to encounter her again.”
–Alan Gordon, author of The Lark’s Lament
The year is 1577. Mary, the abdicated queen of Scots, is a prisoner in England. Her son and heir James is a boy of just eleven, and the regents keep dying. What does Scotland’s political unrest have to do with what seems a purely domestic crime, the murder of Catherine Glenelg’s mother-in-law? More than Susanna Appleton would like. Even if she can find her friend Catherine, who has disappeared in the company of a notorious spy, she knows Catherine won’t cross o’er the Border without her children. And rescuing eight-year-old Lord Glenelg is dangerous because his presence has been commanded at the royal palace as the young king’s reluctant schoolfellow....
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