queens

When mice overrun the castle, the queen summons Max the Magnificent, the largest cat in the kingdom, to get rid of them all.

Retells the Old Testament story of how the young Jewish girl, Esther, became queen of Persia and used her influence to stop the evil minister Haman from killing all the Jews. The feast of Purim commemorates this event.

After the death of her mother, and three years after regaining her sanity, the widowed Dowager Royina Ista finally finds herself free--or so she believes, for mysterious coincidences soon show that the gods have once again chosen her as their instrument.

Chronicles the life of Queen Victoria with a focus on her youth and path toward the crown, and discusses how the death of Princess Charlotte, the only child of King George IV who succumbed to complications after giving birth to a stillborn son, directly contributed to Victoria taking the throne.

Francis Crawford of Lymond, once an accused traitor, now a valued agent of Scottish diplomacy, is sent to France to protect young Queen Mary Stuart from assassinators that extend from her native country to the court of France.

Story of Cleopatra, a woman who took the throne of Egypt and fell in love with a man she meant to use.

A novel which imagines the life of Rue, the last female descendent of Scotland's most royal line who is forced into marriage with her husband's murderer, the warlord Macbeth, who is depending on his wife's royal blood to help him become king--a goal toward which she is willing to put all her resources.