Viking Historical Romance · The Sworn Sagas
The Bed-Closet Truce
Two dead sons. Eight marks of silver unpaid. And the daughters of both houses shut in one hall for the winter, with one bed between them and open war.
Three winters ago Thverdal and Selvik killed each other's sons over a stranded whale, and the Thing set one death against the other and left eight marks of silver owing. Until the last is weighed at the spring assembly, each stead must lodge its daughter at Vadstead — the emptied boundary farm standing on the very ground the feud is about. Thurid Ketilsdottir was raised to hold her father's line in everything, including her own face. Freydis Hallgerd's-daughter is her widowed mother's last heir and only unspent coin. One turf hall, one hearth, one bed-closet — and a frost hard enough that neither woman can afford to let the other freeze.
When the midwinter silver vanishes between the fjord-mouth and the ford, each of them is handed the truth that would ruin the other's house. They go out into the snow after it together instead — and come back knowing that neither of them has an innocent house left to be loyal to. Someone means this truce to fail. Beating him means standing up in front of the whole district and asking for a settlement neither stead would ever offer, at the price of a father, a mother, a home and a name.
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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