JuliaDerek8
After a drunken feast in the year 1067, Leif Blackhair's life takes a terrible turn: He's accused of having raped and strangled a Jarlabanke daughter, member of one of Sweden's most powerful Viking clans. And he doesn't remember a thing.
Only when he's exiled and his family's farm is turned over to the Jarlabankes to pay for his crimes does Leif realize he was set up-by his friend Ragnar Jarlabanke. Ragnar wants to get rid of Leif so he can get his hands on Leif's new wife.
Leif must find a way to prove that Ragnar set him up. Of course, without evidence or witnesses his chances are grim. Not only that, he's now confined to a life in the woods where men hunt for him. But if he doesn't clear his name, he will never again see his wife, and the Jarlabanke clan will work his family to death to pay for the assault on their honor.