Meredith Foster has gone on sabbatical, determined to
realize her late grandfather's dream of building a true
reproduction of an ancient Viking longship. First she needs
to find a shipwright who can do the work up to her
grandfather's standards.
One moment Geirolf is awash in stormy seas clinging to a
well-endowed wooden figurehead, the next he spies a
partially completed longship on a foreign coast. Coming
ashore he takes refuge in a cottage that must be that of a
witch, with light at the press of a button, and strange
fabrics he has never before encountered.. and a plain wench
with comely curves who insists he is a liar when he attempts
to explain who he is.
Meredith does not consider herself to be one of those women
bowled over by a man's appearance, but despite his crazed
ravings about being from the tenth century, the invader she
finds when she gets home is one hot plate of manhood. He
must have been hired as a joke by her colleagues, if so,
they definitely got their money's worth. From bulging
loincloth to hand-wrought metal jewelry he is the image of a
Viking.
With her trademark humor and ability to form absurd
situations into a logical and compelling plot, Sandra Hill
is first on the list for those readers who enjoy romantic
comedy time travel tales. Her Viking series is perhaps her
best known, and now that they are being republished those
who missed these gems the first time around have a chance to
delve in for themselves. THE LAST VIKING was originally
published in 1998.
He wore nothing but a leather tunic, spoke in an ancient
tongue . . . and he was standing in Professor Meredith
Foster's living room. The medieval historian told herself he
was part of a practical joke, but with his wide gold belt,
callused hands, and the rabbit roasting in her fireplace,
the brawny stranger seemed so . . . authentic.
Suddenly Meredith was mesmerized by his bronzed, muscular
form, and her body surrendered to the fantasy that Geirolf
Ericsson really was a Viking from a thousand years ago, sent
only to pleasure her. But as she tried to teach him to eat
spaghetti and use a computer, she realized he knew an awful
lot about the tenth century-and so little about this one.
And as he helped her fulfill her grandfather's dream of
re-creating a Viking ship, he awakened her to dreams of her
own. Until she wondered if the hand of fate had thrust her
into the loving arms of . . . The Last Viking
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