{"product_id":"the-beheading-game-hardcover","title":"The Beheading Game - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca Lehmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDisgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe all know what happened to Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fabulous! A marvelously inventive and mythic reworking of the story of Anne Boleyn. I loved it.\"--Kelly Link, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Nobody was surprised at Anne's conviction. The world loves to put a woman in her place.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beheading Game\u003c\/i\u003e begins in the hours after Anne Boleyn's beheading, when she wakes to find herself unceremoniously laid to rest in a makeshift coffin, her head wrapped in linen at her knees. Discarded by King Henry VIII for being unable to give him a male heir and reviled by Cromwell for being too smart for her own good, she was ultimately executed based on trumped-up charges of adultery, incest, and high treason. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnne escapes the Tower of London, sews her head back on, then sets out on a quest to kill Henry VIII before he can marry her own lady-in-waiting Jane Seymour. The stakes are high--if Jane gives birth to a rival heir, Anne's daughter, Elizabeth, will lose her claim to the throne. Traveling the streets of London in the guise of a commoner, with the help of a prostitute who becomes a trusted friend (and perhaps something more), Anne soon realizes how little she knew about life in the real world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA fantastical journey through the wilds of England and Tudor history, filled with danger and magic and steeped in Arthurian legend, \u003ci\u003eThe Beheading Game\u003c\/i\u003e is a prescient reminder that \"mouthy\" women have always been punished. Now, thanks to debut novelist Rebecca Lehmann, nearly five hundred years after Anne Boleyn's death, one of history's most maligned women finally has the chance to tell her story.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Lehmann\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning poet and essayist. She has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Maytag Fellow. She is the author of three collections of poetry: \u003ci\u003eBetween the Crackups; Ringer\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize (selected by Ross Gay); and\u003ci\u003e The Sweating Sickness\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR's \u003ci\u003eThe Slowdown\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day. She lives in Indiana with her family, where she is an associate professor of English and Gender and Women's Studies at Saint Mary's College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.2 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 24, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51991382163757,"sku":"9798217086481","price":28.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/a6aixxAqZW9798217086481.webp?v=1776297014","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-beheading-game-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}