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 Twenty-Six A Great Grief

Chapter Twenty-Six

A Great Grief

At daybreak, early, the sun barely risen, Anne woke nestled against the bull’s soft, warm chest. By the time they’d taken sight of London, it must have been nearly midnight.

She and the beast were so fatigued that they’d wandered into a ditch beside the road and lay down to sleep the four or five hours that remained before sunrise.