The Captive Queen

By Rosamund Fairfax

A royal marriage endures captivity and years apart.

About the story

A crown cannot keep them together. Devotion will have to survive the distance.

When Elizabeth is crowned Queen of Scots, the ceremony is smaller and more precarious than a royal occasion should be. Robert stands beside her in plain armor, and the warmth of his hand is one of the few certainties in a kingdom newly declared.

Their marriage has become something more than the arrangement that first joined them. But a struggle for Scotland will test a private bond in public, unforgiving ways. Captivity and years apart turn the question of a shared future into something neither rank nor ceremony can guarantee.

A historical novel of Robert the Bruce and Elizabeth de Burgh, imagining love and loyalty within a royal marriage shaped by war, imprisonment, and separation.

Your kind of romance?

• Robert the Bruce and Elizabeth de Burgh
• A royal marriage during Scotland’s struggle
• Captivity and separation
• Medieval historical fiction

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From the opening pages

I had learned to love him. Not swiftly, not with the drama the troubadours favor, but slowly, the way stone warms in sun — so gradually you cannot say when the cold left it, only that one day you touch it and find it holds heat of its own.

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