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Refugee. Queen. Saint. In 11th-century Scotland, a young woman strives to satisfy her destiny regardless of the risks.... Shipwrecked on the Scottish coastline, a young Saxon princess and her family - like the outlawed Edgar of Britain - ask sanctuary of the warrior-king Malcolm Canmore, who shrewdly sees the political benefit. He promises to assist Edgar and the Saxon cause in return for the hand of Edgar's sister, Margaret, in relationship. A foreign queen in a strange land, Margaret adapts alive on the list of barbarian Scots, bears princes, and shapes the fierce warrior Malcolm into a superior ruler. Yet even while the ruler and queen create a excited and tempestuous partnership, the Scots distrust her. When her husband brings Eva, a Celtic bard, to court as a hostage for the good action of the formidable Lady Macbeth, Margaret expects trouble. Instead, an unlikely friendship grows between your queen and her bard, though one has a untamed Celtic nature and the other follows the demanding way of obligation. Torn between old and new loyalties, Eva is destined by the vow to betray the ruler and his Saxon queen. Soon imprisoned and recharged with witchcraft and treason, Eva discovers that Queen Margaret - counseled by the furious ruler and his powerful priests - will make a decision her fate and this of her kinswoman Lady Macbeth. But can the happy queen forgive such deep treachery? Impeccably explored, a remarkable pause-resister, Queen Hereafter is an unforgettable story of shifting alliances and the strain between dread and trust as a young woman confirms her way in a dangerous world.
