London, 1350, and Agnes, daughter of a stonemason, is struggling to keep her father’s trade in a city decimated by plague.
And then she receives a mysterious message from the disgraced Queen Isabella: mother of King Edward III, and widow of Edward II.
Isabella has a task that only Agnes can fulfil. She wants her truth to be told.
Much has been whispered of the conflicts in Isabella and Edward’s marriage. Her greed and warmongering. His unspoken love for male favourites.
As Agnes listens to Isabella, she learns that she can be of help to the queen.
But can either woman choose independence, follow her own desires, and survive?
The Stone Rose by Carol McGrath, the third book in her She-Wolves trilogy, is published on 21 April, 2022.
Read about the previous two books, The Silken Rose and The Damask Rose.
Carol has written a number of features for Historia, including:
Top ten books about the Russian Revolution
Opus Anglicanum: the beauty of medieval English embroidery
Henry VIII, impotence and the thorny question of male heirs, based on her research for Sex and Sexuality in Tudor England, which was published in March, 2022.
