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The Emma of Normandy 2-book Collection: Shadow on the Crown and The Price of Blood
Patricia Bracewell
The first two novels in an epic series about Queen Emma of Normandy, set in 11th-century England when Vikings are on the brink of invasion. A standout series of seduction, war, betrayal and unrequited love from an outstanding new voice in historical fictionSHADOW ON THE CROWNIn 1002 AD Emma, a young Norman girl, must take her place as bride to England’s King Æthelred, a ruler who is looking for nothing more than a political pawn to protect his shores and bear his next child. But Emma soon realises that her new role comes with danger: the seductive Elgiva, mistress to the King, will stop at nothing in her battle for the circlet of gold. Amidst the turmoil of a kingdom under threat and a forbidden love, both women will fight for the King’s attention, a king whose haunted past is as dark as the portent in the night’s sky.THE PRICE OF BLOOD1006 AD. Queen Emma, the Norman bride of England’s King Æthelred, has given birth to a son. Now her place as second wife to the king is safe and Edward marked as heir to the throne. But the royal bed is a cold place and the court a setting for betrayal and violence, as the ageing king struggles to retain his power over the realm. Emma can trust no one, not even the king’s eldest son Athelstan, the man she truly loves.Elsewhere Viking threats to the crown are gaining strength.Emma must protect her only child without abandoning her noble position. And her conflict will be played out against the dramatic and bloody struggle for Britain’s rule.
The Emma of Normandy collection
Shadow on the Crown
The Price of Blood
Patricia Bracewell
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Harper
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Shadow on the Crown first published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
The Price of Blood first published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
Copyright © Patricia Bracewell 2013, 2015
Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
The Price Of Blood: Cover photographs © Dave Wall / Arcangel Images (medieval interior); Gordon Crabb / Alison Eldred (woman)
Shadow On The Crown: Cover photography © Richard Jenkins
Patricia Bracewell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue record for these books are available from the British Library
These novels are entirely works of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination
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Source ISBNs: 9780007481750, 9780008104597
Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780008134990
Version: 2015-05-29
Contents
Cover (#u75710685-44de-5f1b-a485-a1d36013bc9e)
Title Page (#u8725a594-adaa-5597-a4a4-eb70b5109a49)
Copyright (#u69aa211e-f510-5aca-910a-f0c6beb58d3b)
Shadow on the Crown (#u7224e826-2b1c-50e8-9b15-fd5696d474f7)
The Price of Blood (#u013b845f-bcbd-5523-8d29-6cfebef27897)
About the Author (#u342b1a16-1503-5a63-8a9c-378e6e44a01a)
About the Publisher (#u3109298a-6039-5269-a647-b85662b73f63)
Copyright (#ulink_a0151b6b-7f39-5ce7-8cab-19bee9d145a2)
Harper
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)
First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
Copyright © Patricia Bracewell 2013
Map © Matt Brown 2013
Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2013 Cover photography © Richard Jenkins
Patricia Bracewell asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it, while at times based on historical figures, are the work of the author’s imagination.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
Source ISBN: 9780007481767
Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007481750
Version: 2014-01-02
Dedication
For Lloyd, Andrew, and Alan
The English Court, 1001–1005
Æthelred II, Anglo-Saxon king of England
Children of the English king, in birth order:
Athelstan
Ecbert
Edmund
Edrid
Edwig
Edward
Edgar
Edyth
Ælfgifu (Ælfa)
Wulfhilde (Wulfa)
Mathilda
Leading Nobles and Ecclesiastics
Ælfhelm, ealdorman of Northumbria
Ufegeat, his son
Wulfheah, his son (Wulf)
Elgiva, his daughter
Ælfric, ealdorman of Hampshire
Ælfgar, his son
Hilde, his granddaughter
Ælfheah, bishop of Winchester
Godwine, ealdorman of Lindsey
Leofwine, ealdorman of Western Mercia
Wulfstan, archbishop of Jorvik and bishop of Worcester
The Norman Court, 1001–1005
Richard II, duke of Normandy
Robert, archbishop of Rouen, brother of the duke
Judith, duchess of Normandy
Gunnora, dowager duchess of Normandy
Mathilde, sister of the duke
Emma, sister of the duke
The Danish Royals
Swein Forkbeard, king of Denmark
Harald, his son
Cnut, his son
A.D. 978 In this year was King Edward slain at even-tide, at Corfe-gate, on the fifteenth before the kalends of April, and he was buried at Werham without any royal honours. Nor was a worse deed than this done since men came to Britain … Æthelred was consecrated king. In this same year a bloody sky was often seen, most clearly at midnight, like fire in the form of misty beams. As dawn approached, it glided away.
– The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Contents
Cover (#u7224e826-2b1c-50e8-9b15-fd5696d474f7)
Title Page (#u1dd578e8-a5cf-57db-8d83-bc6e4d6d0f37)
Copyright (#u7680b7a9-4d26-57ff-80f5-7fc27b5c8281)
Dedication (#ud7431187-ae04-5771-bcaa-22606927e6ef)
Epigraph (#u92aa6512-eb90-537e-92fd-646c8f457a33)
Map (#u2d0ad6c8-2088-549a-9f44-40a791a32ca3)
Prologue (#ucd67bf55-58bd-59b7-8526-ffdfb3381d5e)
Chapter One (#u06731248-8ab4-5ff3-b4b3-ca1ed2b77819)
