This dazzling debut brings the Dark Ages
to light and illuminates one Saxon
noblewoman's romance with a Viking warrior and her
struggle to find her path in a changing and
dangerous world 869.
For eighteen years, Avelynn, the beautiful and secretly
pagan daughter of the Ealdorman of Somerset,
has lived in an environment of love, acceptance, and
equality. Somerset has flourished under twenty
years of peace. But with whispers of war threatening
their security, Avelynn's father makes an
uncompromising decision that changes her life forever.
Forced into a betrothal with Demas, a man who
only covets her wealth and status, Avelynn's perception
of independence is shattered. With marriage
looming, she turns to her faith, searching for answers in
an ancient ritual along the coast, only to
find Alrik The Blood-Axe and sixty Viking berserkers have
landed.
In a year of uncertainty that sees Avelynn discover
hidden powers, stumble into a passionate love
affair with Alrik, and lead men into battle, Avelynn must
walk a fine line as her deceptions mount
and Demas' tactics to possess her become more desperate
and increasingly brutal. Avelynn and Alrik
are caught in the throes of fate as they struggle to find
the way back to themselves and onwards to
each other.
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