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Book Blurb:<\/h2>\nToday I am spotlighting a historical fiction book, The Spider and the Stone.\u00a0 This will take you from the world of Braveheart to what happened after.\u00a0 If you are looking for a historically based story about the world of the highlander this will be a book you want to pick up.<\/p>\n
Book Blurb:<\/h2>\nAs the 14th century dawns, Scotland\u2019s survival hangs by a spider\u2019s thread. While the Scot clans scrap over their empty throne, the brutal Edward Longshanks of England invades the weakened northern kingdom, scheming to annex it to his realm. But one Lanark lad stands in the Plantagenet monarch\u2019s path. Today I am spotlighting a historical fiction book, The Spider and the Stone.\u00a0 This will take you from the world of Braveheart to what happened after.\u00a0 If you are looking for a historically based story about the world of the highlander this will be a book you want to pick up. Book Blurb: As the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe beleaguered Scots cherish him as their “Good Sir James.” In England, his slashing raids deep into Yorkshire and Northumbria wreak such terror that he is branded the Black Douglas with a reward placed on his head.
\nAs a boy, James falls in love with the ravishing Isabelle MacDuff, whose clan for centuries has inaugurated Scottish monarchs on the hallowed Stone of Destiny. But his world is upturned when he befriends
\nRobert Bruce, a bitter enemy of the MacDuffs. Forced to choose between love and clan loyalty, James and Isabelle make fateful decisions that will draw the opposing armies to the bloody field of Bannockburn.
\nIsabelle will crown a king. James will carry a king’s heart. Both now take their rightful places with Robert Bruce, Rob Roy, and William Wallace in the pantheon of Scot heroes.
\nHere is the story of Scotland\u2019s War of Independence and the remarkable events that followed the execution of Wallace, whose legend was portrayed in the movie Braveheart. This thrilling epic leads us to the miraculous Stone of Destiny, to the famous Spider in the Cave, to the excommunicated Knights Templar, to the suppressed Culdee Church, and to the unprecedented Declaration of Arbroath, the stirring oath document that inspired the American Declaration of Independence four hundred years later.
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