2013 Rainbow Awards Submission: Jesse Blackadder - The Raven's Heart

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The Raven's Heart: A Story of a Quest, a Castle and Mary Queen of Scots by Jesse Blackadder
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Bywater Books; Reprint edition (September 11, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1612940277
ISBN-13: 978-1612940274
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"Jesse Blackadder has all the hallmarks of a great historical fiction writer, achieving a fine balance of thoroughly researched atmospheric detail and suspenseful story. . . . In The Raven's Heart she doesn't hit one wrong note."—The Sunday Telegraph

Scotland, 1561, and a ship comes across the North Sea carrying home Mary, the young, charismatic Queen of Scots, returning after thirteen years in the French court to wrest back control of her throne.

The Blackadder family has long awaited for the Queen's return to bring them justice. Alison Blackadder, disguised as a boy from childhood to protect her from the murderous clan that stole their lands, must learn to be a lady-in-waiting to the Queen, building a web of dependence and reward.

Just as the Queen can trust nobody, Alison discovers lies, danger, and treachery at every turn.

This sweeping, imaginative, and original tale of political intrigue, misplaced loyalty, secret passion, and implacable revenge is based on real characters and events from the reign of Mary Queen of Scots.

The Raven's Heart is a breathtaking epic from a bold, fresh voice. Winner of the Varuna HarperCollins Manuscript Development Award.

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[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

very honored this is one of the Rainbow Awards submissions