When Katra was six years old her father married her to Arne. She grew up knowing his name and having flashes of him in her memories. Now he is back and ready to claim the child he left. Arne had returned from making new trade. His child bride is now grown and it is time to claim his bur. When Arne rides into the courtyard he is surprised to see the young child who showed promise of beauty grown into more then he thought could ever be. Arne is Jarl ready to claim his bride. A warrior ready to claim what is his. Katra is a princess. A shieldmadien. Arne has no idea of the fierce wife he will face. Yet in the forest there is a dark force that will the see the couple fall so that he may claim the shieldmadien as his. Will he win?

Iona is a princess who dwells in the spoils of life, considering her simplicity yet ravaging demeanor. One day, everything changed when a group of vikings step foot on their soil. considering that those times, disputes and contraventions took place in both areas. They took vast amounts of fortune and slaves away, not knowing she is of royalty, she is displayed for slavery. Hopelessness and agony ate her at that moment as she thought of being forever condemned of the felicity she ones tasted and the possibility to be excroriated forever from her motherland. Unknowingly, she will encounter happiness but more pain more than she could ever imagine in the hands of a powerful, ruthless and handsome jàrl, Brynjar. will she live her life in her new adopted home as a slave? or will risk her safety when she exposed her royalty?