Viking Historical Romance · The Sworn Sagas
The Enemy Under Her Hands
She swore to mend anyone laid on her bench. At first frost they laid down the woman who burned her hall.
Steinunn Halfdansdottir is the bone-setter of a fjord-stead that still shows the char-line where its hall went up. Her craft-oath does not let her choose. So when her neighbours carry in a shield-maiden with a thigh split and blackening — Yngvild Bardsdottir, who gave the order, handed over lame as living surety for a blood-debt her jarl brother will not pay in silver — Steinunn takes the leg in her hands and keeps her enemy alive.
Through a night of searing and a hunger-winter of dressings, the hatred she kept sharpened like a tool comes away in her fingers as something she has no word for. And every day she keeps Yngvild whole is a day she keeps her whole for the spring Thing, where an unpaid debt is taken out of a surety's body before witnesses.
To stop it, Steinunn will swear a lie inside a lawful oath — and a lie about a healing is one anyone can cut the binding away and check.
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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LGBTQ+ / LesbianHistorical / VikingEnemies to Lovers
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The Sworn Sagas
