Novels about Women Who Influenced Thrones
From Author Kristi Ross
I began the Stewart Queens Series because I wanted to know these women as more than names beside Scotland’s kings. Joan Beaufort, Euphemia Ross, and Annabella Drummond each lived through a very different chapter in the history of the Scottish Crown, with marriages, children, loyalties, and choices that mattered.
Beginning in December 2026 with The Ransom Queen, my novels place each queen at the center of her own story, drawing on the known history of her life while imagining the world she experienced.
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CONVERSATIONS WITH THE QUEENS
What might Scotland’s medieval queens tell us if anyone had thought to ask them?
This companion piece introduces Joan Beaufort, Euphemia Ross, and Annabella Drummond in their own imagined voices, drawing readers into the women and the history behind the Stewart Queens Series.
What to Expect From The Forgotten Queen Novels
Authentic Medieval Settings
Step inside the castle walls. I want you to experience these places as more than a backdrop: the great halls and private chambers, abbeys and royal residences, roads and landscapes where these women actually lived. My research takes me into their world so I can bring that world to the page as authentically as possible.
Complex Character Development
These queens are not names on a family tree or figures standing beside their kings. I write them as women with families, loyalties, ambitions, fears, flaws, and difficult choices of their own. The history tells us what happened. Historical fiction lets me explore the women who lived through it.
A Legacy Reclaimed
So much of their history survives in records written about the kings, marriages, children, lands, and political events around them. My novels bring the queens themselves back to the center of those stories, not by changing the history, but by looking at it through their eyes.
Follow the queens’ stories through history, people, & places
MEET SCOTLAND’S FIRST STEWART QUEENS
I couldn’t bring Scotland’s first Stewart queens to my office, so I imagined that I could.
Meet Joan, Euphemia, and Annabella through profiles and imagined conversations, both at my desk and in places connected to their lives.
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Get To Know The Forgotten Stewart Queens
Conversations with the Queens, is a FREE companion to my upcoming novels. It’s a blend of history, imagination, and the emotional truth these women carried.
Whether you’re drawn to forgotten women, Scottish history, or simply a good story, I hope these conversations stay with you the way they’ve stayed with me.
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