Steel Beneath the Silk
Bracewell, Patricia
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A breathtaking conclusion to Bracewell’s Emma of Normandy Trilogy, brimming with treachery, heartache, tenderness and passion as the English queen confronts ambitious and traitorous councilors, invading armies and the Danish king’s power-hungry concubine.In the year 1012 England’s Norman-born Queen Emma has been ten years wed to an aging, ruthless, haunted King Æthelred. The marriage is a bitterly unhappy one, between a queen who seeks to create her own sphere of influence within the court and a suspicious king who eyes her efforts with hostility and resentment. But royal discord shifts to grudging alliance when Cnut of Denmark, with the secret collusion of his English concubine Elgiva, invades England at the head of a massive viking army. Amid the chaos of war, Emma must outwit a fierce enemy whose goal is conquest and outmaneuver the cunning Elgiva, who threatens all those whom Emma loves.
Main title:
Steel Beneath the Silk / Patricia Bracewell
Author:
Bracewell, Patricia, author
Imprint:
Longmeadow : Bellastoria Press Llp, 2021.
Collation:
448 p. ; 24cm
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Series:
Emma of Normandy ; 3
ISBN:
19422098199781942209812 (pbk)
Local class:
F
Language:
English
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BRN:
3447033
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