It had been written that the daughter of Ragnar Lothbrok was taken to Valhalla as a young girl. But what if the gods didn't take her? What if the gods spared her? Gyda Ironside, the only daughter of Ragnar and Lagertha rejoins her family as a trained shieldmaiden warrior years on. With the gods on her side she is welcomed back into the unpredictable world of her people- Vikings. In a twisted term of events young Gyda is faced with her first war between nations. A war she fights in and a war in which only she can subdue. Gyda Ironside is to marry a Saxon prince in order to save her people from the bloodshed. The gods make known their plan for her as she is pushed into a fight she has never faced before but a fight indeed to ensure her place in power as a Queen.