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In ninth-century Britain, fifteen-year-old Aethelflaed, daughter of King Alfred of West Saxony, finds she must assume new responsibilities much sooner than expected when she is betrothed to Ethelred of Mercia in order to strengthen a strategic alliance against the Danes.

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Subjects
Anglo-Saxons, Fiction, History, Juvenile fiction, Kings, queens, rulers, Vikings
People
Aethelflaed, Ethelfled (d. 918), Ethelred of Mercia, King Alfred, Æthelflæd
Places
Great Britain, Lunden, Mercia, Mercia (Kingdom), Wessex
Times
800s, Alfred, 871-899

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Table of Contents

I. Late Winter Page 1 1. Dusk Page 3 2. Moonrise Page 17 3. Midnight Page 27 4. Red Page 36 5. In the Great Hall Page 48 II. Spring Page 55 6. The Marsh Page 57 7. Mercia Rallies Page 67 8. A Mound on the Plain Page 75 9. Mercia Bested Page 84 10. Treachery Page 95 11. Truce Page 103 III. Summer Page 113 12. The King's Council Page 115 13. Battle Lessons Page 120 14. Message to Mercia Page 130 15. Waiting Page 139 16. Ethelred Page 147 17. The Race Page 153 18. The Trap Page 169 IV. Summer's End Page 173 19. Leaving Home Page 175 20. Blood Money Page 191 21. Fortune's Wheel Page 205 22. Dead Letters Page 214 23. Hunter & Hunted Page 222 24. Noble River Page 238 25. Lady of the Mercians Page 257 Historical Note. Page 274

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Copyright Date
2001

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Pagination
277p.

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OL24332712M
Internet Archive
edgeonsword00
ISBN 10
0142500585
OCLC/WorldCat
52548901
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96203

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