title: The Warrior Queen: The Life and Legend of Aethelflaed, Daughter of Alfred the Great
author:  Joanna Arman 
description: Joanna Arman is currently a PhD Student at the University of Winchester, researching Women and Feudalism in the Late Middle-Ages. She retains an intense interest in and passion for the Anglo-Saxon period and chose thelfld of Mercia, daughter of Alfred the Great, as the subject of her MA research. Her biography of thelfld, Warrior Queen, is also published by Amberley.
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  From captive to bride...
  
  Lady Aediva of Etton will do anything to protect her sister, Cille. So when
  enemies storm her family’s keep, Aediva assumes Cille’s identity...taking her
  place as prisoner of Sir Svend du Danemark.
  
  Svend’s sole aim is to fulfill his service to William the Conqueror and
  rebuild the life a woman’s betrayal once lost him. So when he receives his new
  orders to quash the Saxon rebellion, he is stunned. To do his duty, he must
  vow to take the beautiful yet provoking Aediva as his wife!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Why?” She looked panicked. “What does he want with me?”
  
  He wishes for you to marry again.
  
  The answer sprang to his lips, but the obvious fear in her voice made him
  hesitate. With his hand gripping her arm, he felt suddenly, irrationally,
  protective. It wasn’t his place to tell her the earl’s plans, but she was
  watching him, no longer defiant but frightened, asking him a question. He felt
  a stirring in his chest—something he hadn’t felt in a long time—as i