The Beheading Game

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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Chapter Twelve The Ghost in the Room

Chapter Twelve

The Ghost in the Room

The city of London’s nine o’clock curfew was mostly for noise control.

In a city this large, with blacksmiths and carpenters and coopers and stoneworkers and all manner of others engaged in noisy occupations, there needed to be some hours of quiet, when a person could reliably sleep or have a moment of peaceful prayer.