Queen Macbeth: Darkland Tales

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In an ancient Scottish landscape a thousand years ago, a woman runs with three companions: a healer, a weaver, a seer. Men are hunting them, intent on killing the one person who stands between them and their violent ambition. She is not a lady, but the first queen of Scotland, married to a king called Macbeth.

As the net tightens, the story moves through passion, forced marriage, bloody massacre and the harsh realities of medieval Scotland. Power is close and brutal, and survival depends on judgement as much as courage. At the centre is a strong, charismatic woman, tested by loss and jeopardy, facing a string of ruthless, power hungry men and the ceaseless plotting that surrounds them.

Her struggle wins her a country, even as it makes her a target. With each step she takes, the cost rises, and the question is no longer whether she can outwit them, but what outliving them will demand.