The Beheading Game

The Beheading Game

Author: Rebecca Lehmann Listening Length: 10h 43m
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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 Fifteen Good Night, Dear Heart

Chapter Fifteen

Good Night, Dear Heart

Anne thought, as she lay shivering by Alice’s side, hoping for sleep to descend and ease her suffering for a few hours, of how she’d gotten herself into this mess.

Not of how she’d gotten herself into the mess of breaking into the Tower of London as an undead woman, committing theft, and being spied escaping, nor of how she got herself into the mess of her own execution, but how she’d gotten herself into the original mess, of knowing Henry to begin with, of opening the door of his affections, his interests, and of hers.