num_pages: 658
description: This is a story of Lady Alflæd, wife to King Peada—and the first Christian queen of Mercia.  She is known for killing her husband.  And not only killing him, but ‘foully’ slaying him, with ‘treachery’ and ‘betrayal’.  Seventh-century Britain is a violent time, with uneasy alliances between warring kingdoms. Realms are stitched together by convenient marriages and brutal battles, and torn apart by bitter betrayals and bloody revenge.  It is also a time of spiritual change, when a new Christian doctrine is sweeping the land, replacing Anglo-Saxon heathenism.  But history is never kind to powerful women. His-tory is rarely the same as Her-story.  So this is a tale of what might have happened, an intimate look at the life of a young woman living in an age of great strife, charged with uniting two vast realms and transitioning from paganism to Christianity.  It is also a story of a woman just trying to make it in a savage world, where—much like today—choices are limited, men hold the power, and it takes courage to survive.  Note: this book has explicit violence and adult themes.  YOU’VE BEEN WARNED. 
title: Killer Queen