Viking Historical Romance · The Sworn Sagas
Her Share of the Plunder
She was owed four marks of silver for the raid. She took the woman who killed one of her oars instead.
When the stead at Naustvik burns, the last defender standing is a shield-maiden with a notched sword and her mother's name. Bergljot Hallsdottir holds the high seat of her own ship by never once taking more than the split allows her — and she takes Svanhild Gyda's-daughter as her captain's share. By nightfall Svanhild knows exactly what a prize is: tethered in the stern, cut into the ship's tally in the same hand as the sacks of grain, and told that the law for a runaway is the tendon or the block, whichever the crew votes.
Twenty-seven days south to the Hedeby slave market, with Svanhild's foster-sister roped forward in the common share and a captain who will not — cannot — buy her out without losing the ship. What grows between the two women in a space too small for lying is not gratitude and it is not rescue. It is worse than either, and it costs more.
Then the ransom arrives: silver enough to carry Svanhild home to the uncle who never forgave her and the husband he has already chosen. And Bergljot does the one thing that would make any answer mean anything — she frees her outright, at the law-stone, before named witnesses, with a ship waiting at the wharf to take her north.
A full-length open-door sapphic Viking romance with a hard-won HEA. Perfect for fans of Genevieve Gornichec and Nicola Griffith.
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The Sworn Sagas
