Race Of Scorpions The House of Niccolo 3

<p><b>The exquisitely-researched standalone prequel series to Dorothy Dunnett''s revered Lymond Chronicles, following the ancestors of Francis Crawford of Lymond in Continental Europe.<br></b><br><i>Race of Scorpions</i> is Book Three in The House of Niccolo series.<br><br><i><b>-----------------------------</b></i><br><br><b>''Who''s the lady in trouble, Master Nicholas?''<br>''She''s not a lady. She''s a Queen called Carlotta.''</b><br><br>It is 1462 and Carlotta, the young Queen of Jerusalem, Cyprus and Armenia, is besieged by brigands at a farm on the winter road to Bologna when Nicholas vander Poele rides to her rescue - and into deeper trouble.<br><br>Now the head of his own private army, Nicholas finds himself a sought-after man by both Carlotta and her half-brother, James. Each lays claim to the throne of Cyprus and each seeks to persuade Nicholas - in more ways than one - to lend his cunning and might to their cause.<br><br>As Christians and Muslims, merchants and Mamelukes, t