The Price of Blood

Name: The Price of Blood
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Patricia Bracewell
ISBN: 9781494576219

Author: Patricia Bracewell

Series: Emma of Normandy #2

Narrator: Heather Wilds

Unabridged: 14 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/05/2015

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Unwillingly thrust into marriage to England's King Æthelred, Emma has given the king a son and heir, but theirs has never been a happy marriage. In The Price of Blood, Bracewell returns to 1006 when a beleaguered Æthelred, still haunted by his brother's ghost, governs with an iron fist and a royal policy that embraces murder.

As tensions escalate and enmities solidify, Emma forges alliances to protect her young son from ambitious men—even from the man she loves. In the north there is treachery brewing, and when Viking armies ravage England, loyalties are shattered and no one is safe from the sword.

About Patricia Bracewell

Patricia Bracewell is a native of California, where she taught literature and composition before embarking upon her writing career. She is the author of Shadow on the Crown. Patricia lives in Northern California with her husband.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judith

Bracewell started her series about Queen Emma with her compelling debut Shadow on the Crown. The Price of Blood picks up in 1006 with Emma’s husband King Aethelred mired in suspicions of everyone around him and haunted by the ghost of his dead brother. Aethelred’s primary policy aims to keep all his......more

Goodreads review by Samantha

I have waited impatiently for the arrival of the second installment of Patricia Bracewell's Emma of Normandy trilogy, and it did not disappoint. A surprisingly brief period of time is covered (1006-1012), leaving much to occur in the final book (or maybe we'll get lucky and get more than a trilogy,......more