This book is now available on Amazon and unfortunately they won't allow me to put it up elsewhere for free, not even the unedited draft. Sorry! The Vikings! Aelswyn had heard about them, all the tales of their barbaric behaviour, the rapes and pillages, the massacres, the burnt villages. But she never thought they would dare to attack her father's stronghold. And that they would succeed...

300 years ago a man saved our village. He demanded a girl as payment: one every moon until he stopped returning their bodies. Two days ago another was returned. I don't know who or what he is or why he wants these girls. All I know is...I'm next.

On one normal summer day I meet my mate. The next day I wake up to an empty bed and a broken heart. What happens when a year later I see him again? Only this time he has a girl hanging off his arm and I have his son on my hip.