A splendid fusion of historical research and imagination. Adrienne McDonnell, author of"The Doctor and the Diva"
Readers first met Emma of Normandy in Patricia Bracewell s gripping debut novel, "Shadow on the Crown." Unwillingly thrust into marriage to England s King AEthelred, 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 AEthelred still haunted by his brother s ghost governs with an iron fist and a royal policy that embraces murder.
As tensions escalate and enmities...