Face Down Oer the Border: A Lady Appleton Mystery

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? 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 Scotlands political unrest have to do with what seems a purely domestic crime, the murder of Catherine Glenelgs 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 wont cross oer 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 kings reluctant schoolfellow....