The Viking's Sacrifice
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- ¥330
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Viking raiders destroyed Wilda's home. She witnessed the murder of her mother and would have been killed herself if it weren't for the Viking boy Einar, who saved her from his ruthless brother. The blood and murder left Wilda cold and shorn of feeling.
Eight years later, the heathens return for Wilda. As a captive in the Viking village, she finds protection and silent comfort in the man who once gallantly saved her.
Einar has been cursed to silence by his brother. With the dark net of his brother's power cast over their village, silence is a small price to pay for his family's safety. But Einar is immediately drawn to Wilda, and the need to protect her from his brother awakens his Viking courage. Can Einar break his brother's curse in time to save the village and the woman he loves?
69,000 words
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A Saxon noblewoman and a wronged Viking find unexpected passion in this low-key historical romance from Knight (Ilfayne's Bane). Meeting first as youths during a raid on her village, Wilda and Einar re-encounter each other years later when she is captured and taken as a thrall of Einar's estranged brother, Sigdir. Treated with contempt by his fellows, Einar stays docile and silent only because Sigdir threatens their younger siblings, but Einar's growing love for the courageous Wilda and his fear that she might reveal the secret that will bring down a curse upon them all eventually stirs him to action. Their quietly engaging love story is neatly interwoven with the tale of Einar's quest for social redemption and a well-researched, evenhanded portrayal of clashing cultures in ninth-century England and Norway, and will please readers who enjoy history at least as much as romance.
