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-Eight Dead Men’s Shoes

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Dead Men’s Shoes

Anne knew better than to follow the Green Man, who’d been able to move confidently past Whitehall’s guards, either because he was dressed as an entertainer or because he didn’t actually exist. A common woman, as she appeared to be, would not be allowed to pass.

Anne and Henry had worked extensively to redesign Whitehall when they’d taken it from Cardinal Wolsey after he’d failed to get Henry his annulment and fallen from favor.