The Beheading Game

Author: Rebecca Lehmann Listening Length: 10h 43m

Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . . We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice? The Beheading Game begins in the hours after Anne Boleyn’s beheading, when she wakes to find herself unceremo...

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It was evening when Anne reached Long Southwark, the road that led to London Bridge’s south gate, when she remembered the fee she’d need to pay to cross, and recalled again that she didn’t have any money.

She averted her gaze from the bridge’s gate, not wanting to see what she knew was there: the heads of Henry Norris, William Brereton, Francis Weston, Mark Smeaton, and her own George.

Prologue 02:50
Chapter One The Arrow Chest 16:35
Chapter Two Needle and Thread 21:49
Chapter Three The Good Man of the Snow 16:04
Chapter Four The Bear 22:32
Chapter Five John and the River 17:47
Chapter Six The Stews 24:58
Chapter Seven A Bargain 24:28
Chapter Eight Mr. Fox 16:37
Chapter Nine The Trial 16:50
Chapter Ten Like a Swan-Man, He Dove 18:51
Chapter Eleven Thomas Becket 24:41
Chapter Twelve The Ghost in the Room 28:54
Chapter Thirteen Thomas Wyatt 17:12
Chapter Fourteen The Women Ran Still 11:03
Chapter Fifteen Good Night, Dear Heart 14:46
Chapter Sixteen The King May Perish. Hide. 26:12
Chapter Seventeen The Fens 14:53
Chapter Eighteen Parsnips 23:51
Chapter Nineteen The Golden Bird 25:19
Chapter Twenty The Most Happy 24:50
Chapter Twenty-One The Bull 12:08
Chapter Twenty-Two The Sweat 16:45
Chapter Twenty-Three The Encampment 18:32
Chapter Twenty-Four The Witch 20:09
Chapter Twenty-Five The Sword 20:34
Chapter Twenty-Six A Great Grief 15:12
Chapter Twenty-Seven The Green Man 14:25
Chapter Twenty-Eight Dead Men’s Shoes 26:47
Chapter Twenty-Nine The Labyrinth 21:02
Chapter Thirty Stalking Prey 13:21
Chapter Thirty-One The Altar 14:32
Chapter Thirty-Two Scream and I’ll Kill You 15:18
Chapter Thirty-Three Of Body Small, Of Power Regal 22:58

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