When his wife and children die, Viking marauder Brandr has
nothing left to live for, so he sails away on one final
voyage. A storm at sea leaves him shipwrecked, alone, and
barely alive on a foreign coastline. Along the Pictish
shore, Avril, a warrior maid and the victim of a Viking
berserker, banished from her ancestral home of Rivenloch to
a seaside cottage, dreams of the day she’ll raise her
sword, take back the castle that is rightfully hers, and
find her half-Viking daughter a proper father. Discovering
a broad-shouldered, fair-haired, broken castaway washed up
on her beach among the wreckage of his longship, she takes
him captive and binds him in chains. She refuses to be a
Viking’s victim again...never imagining that soon her
fiercest enemy will earn her trust, invade her heart, and
enthrall her senses.