title: Royal Sisters: The Story of the Daughters of James II (A Novel of the Stuarts)
author:  Jean Plaidy 
description: &#160;<br>&ldquo;Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama.&rdquo;&mdash;<i>New York Times</i>
zlib_text: **Sophia James** lives in a big old house in Chelsea Bay on Auckland's North
  Shore, with her husband, who is an artist, three kids, two cats, a turtle and
  a guide dog puppy.
  
  Life is busy because, as well as teaching adults English at the local Migrant
  School, she helps her husband take art tours to Italy and France each
  September. Sophia has a degree in English and History from Auckland
  University, and she believes her love of writing was formed reading Georgette
  Heyer, with her twin sister, on the porch of her grandmother's house,
  overlooking the sand hills of Raglan.
  
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  **Previous novels by Sophia James:**
  
  FALLEN ANGEL ASHBLANE'S LADY HIGH SEAS TO HIGH SOCIETY
  
  **MASQUERADING MISTRESS**
  
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  It **** is 1360 and Scotland is in chaos. King David has just returned to
  Edinburgh after eleven years of captivity under the English and the vacuum of
  power created in his absence brings a crisis. While some landowners want to
  retain th