from amazon;

As sisters they share an everlasting bond; as queens they can break each other’s hearts…

When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret, takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined—with Margaret’s younger sister Mary—to a unique sisterhood. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland, and France.

United by family loyalties and affections, the three queens find themselves set against each other. Katherine commands an army against Margaret and kills her husband James IV of Scotland. But Margaret’s boy becomes heir to the Tudor throne when Katherine loses her son.

Mary steals the widowed Margaret’s proposed husband, but when Mary is widowed it is her secret marriage for love that is the envy of the others. As they experience betrayals, dangers, loss, and passion, the three sisters find that the only constant in their perilous lives is their special bond, more powerful than any man, even a king.

it should've been titled margaret; tutor princess & queen of scotland. with bit parts by katherine of aragon & mary, dowager queen of france. i kept expecting the POV to shift to one of the others but it didn't.

and philippa gregory must belong to the richard III defense society. because she has him as the good guy, either very obvious as in the kingmaker's daughter and the white princess or subtle as in this novel.

Most of the books in the First North Americans series have similar plot devices; there's a tyrant (or two) who wants to be King over all they see. He often abuses Power (sort of an universal life force similar to The Force) & throws it out of wack. There's one that stands against him, usually male & a Dreamer (someone in tune with Power), who then brings everything back into balance.
Each book focuses on a different ancient Native American culture and are set anywhere from 13,000 B.C.E to 1300 A.D. There's details about what clothing was worn, what food was eaten, what the dwellings looked like & what some of their rituals were. The authors are archeologists, so you can be sure that most of the details are accurate, up to the time the book was written. (other information could've been found later that contradicts something. i don't know) the first part of every novel is set in modern times and deals with some form of clash between Native American culture (involving archeology) and the modern world.

But this novel is different; it's a murder mystery. Which was kind of interesting. I saw the big shocking moment coming, but it was just a bit different enough to surprise me. I'd recommend this series to anyone who has an interest in ancient peoples or archeology/anthropology.