❝You have war in your eyes and death in your heart.❞ (VIKINGS AU.)

(UNEDITED TRASH) A Grecian girl is taken from her home in the Mediterranean during a raid in a Christian monestary. She is thrown into dangerous waters after she is gifted to Ivar, who believes she is nothing good but a pretty distraction, until he learns of her true talents, using her to his advantage for his growing army against the Christians of England, and the usurper, Lagertha. Cover art by the AMAZING and TALENTED Artful_Becca!

First from a farmer's village on the coast of Wessex, she's captured by Vikings all of which follows the order of the ruthless Ivar the Boneless. Once in the new cold and grey land, tree falls, people whisper and gods scream. May she fall and love, she's a prisoner, to everything and everyone.

Princess Aethelswith, the sister to the newly crowned King Alfred is kidnapped by Vikings. The intent is to hold her as incentive during negations for land. Prince Ivar, the head of the Great Heathen Army is blindsided by his own reaction to this Christian princess. This is the story of a young man and a young woman, enemies to the other, finding an uncertain, unfamiliar and unlikely bond. Description to Part Two below. Contains *SPOILERS* Part 2 to the Ease The Dawn series. Ivar is King of Kattegat. Aethelswith struggles to find her place among strangers in a foreign land. Confronted by her Christian ties and an unbroken marriage, she must find her way and navigate the storm of a dominating lover surrounded by wolves in sheep's clothing. Part 3 to Ease The Dawn is an alternate ending to Part 1 which picks up at the point in time of Ivars accident on the lake. A different story where their intimacy begins while still in camp. Some scenes have similar elements but with a very different outcome. FYI - fic Emboite - is Ivar and Æthelswith's modern AU

This is the story of a princess sold like meat to a Viking. She is forced into loving him until she really does, her life tinted by the presence of a lady of the court she has brought with her.