Linda Root lives in Yucca Valley, California in the Morongo Basin, 35 miles northeast and above Palm Springs. She is a former prosecutor with more than 140 trials to her credit including homicides, several sufficiently newsworthy to attract the national media. Two were featured episodes of The Prosecutors and Arrest and Trial. She has taught research and writing at the law school level, and is an alumnus of Pomona College and an MCL graduate of Thomas Jefferson School of law where she was valedictorian. Following an early retirement due to hearing loss, she combines her expertise as a researcher with her love of Tudor-Stuart history in a quest to rediscover the Queen of Scots and the early Stuarts. The result is a series of stand-alone but related historical novels beginning with the epic The First Marie and the Queen of Scots, a tale of Marie Flemyng, one of the famous Four Maries who had served the queen since they were five years old. The second segment, The Last Knight and the Queen of Scots explores Marie Stuart through the fictional adventures of colorful and controversial Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange, Europe's first-ranked soldier who later became the Queen's last champion. In a second series, the Legacy of the Queen of Scots, Root explores a legend that the queen gave birth to a child at Loch Leven in the winter of 1568, who was smuggled to France and hidden in a convent. Books in the series to date are An Unknown Princess, The Last Knight's Daughter, 1603: The Queen's Revenge, In The Shadow of the Gallows, a novel of the Gunpowder Plot, and its sequel, Deliverance of the Lamb: An Unlikely Rescue of a Hunted Priest, a novel of the political corruption following the Gunpowder Treason. The latter four feature the captivating continuing characters Daisy Kirkcaldy, daughter of the Queen's Last Knight, and Will Hepburn, the bastard son of the Earl of Bothwell. Marie Stuart's third husband. She has also written a historical Fantasy, The Green Woman. She is currently working on an allegorical science fiction novel 2055: Gen., and a fictionalized biography An an American Dirge. Root is a member of the Marie Stuart Society, an inactive member of the State Bar of California and a member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, as well as numerous historical and indie writer forums, including the English Historical Fiction Author's blog, Historical Authors' Forum and The Review. Reach her on her Facebook pages Linda Root and Linda Root, Indie Writer, or through her blog Linda Root - Indie Writer at lindaroot.blogspot.com or at lindaroot8@gmail.com.