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Also by Patricia Bracewell:

The Steel Beneath the Silk, March 2021
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The Price Of Blood, February 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Shadow On The Crown, February 2013
Hardcover / e-Book

THE STEEL BENEATH THE SILK
By: Patricia Bracewell

Bellastoria Press
March 2021
On Sale: March 2, 2021
Featuring: Emma of Normandy
ISBN: 1942209819
EAN: 9781942209812
Kindle: B08P5892K9
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Women's Fiction Historical | Historical

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.