Before her twenty-fifth year, she was both a princess and a prisoner, a royal daughter and the daughter of a traitor. Now Elizabeth Tudor has become queen of England and, in her private moments, cannot quite believe she survived. She has to figure out how to rule, but first she must reclaim her past, and to do that, she must find the last thing her mother ever gave her—a ruby ring in the shape of a falcon. “Bring Me The Head of Anne Boleyn” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch was first published in Royal Crimes, edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Martin H. Greenberg, Signet Books, August 1994.