Frances Mary Hendry
The Lark
language
( Feb. 10, 2012)
John Russell, son of an archer in King Henri II's Scottish Guard, is chosen to be whipping-boy to sickly Dauphin Francois, who is betrothed to Mary, Queen of Scots. In the religious terrors of France in the 1560s, among the fans and fanatics, jesters and jousters, cardinals and courtesans, political plotters and sadistic sorcerers, can John and his younger sister, the sweet-voiced Lark, keep themselves and their young queen from disaster?