Patricia Bracewell

Patricia Bracewell is an American author of historical fiction who grew up in California, where she taught literature and composition before turning to writing. Her best-known book is Shadow on the Crown (2013), a novel of eleventh-century England in which Emma of Normandy marries King Æthelred amid court intrigue and the threat of Viking invasion. It opens a trilogy continued in The Price of Blood (2015) and closed by The Steel Beneath the Silk (2021).