Viking Historical Romance · The Sworn Sagas
The Sword at Her Door
She paid for a sword to guard her body. She never meant to want the woman who carried it.
Widowed at nine-and-twenty and holding her fjord-hall through a starving winter, Aslaug Thorsteinsdottir keeps one shield between herself and the suitors circling her high seat: Thordis, the black-haired, weather-scarred huskarl she pays to sleep across her threshold — the only loyalty in the hall she has not had to buy with a promise of marriage. When a powerful hersir arrives with law-men to press the claim that no widow may hold a hall alone past the spring Thing, the last wall between Aslaug and a forced match is the very woman she has bought — and wants for reasons that have nothing to do with the blade.
Then a night raid leaves Thordis bleeding from a strike meant for her mistress, and in the dark Aslaug names a truth that turns everything over: she does not want to be guarded. She wants to be chosen. With the Thing days away and her kinsmen ready to cry Thordis a lowborn seducer preying on a grief-addled widow, the two women must hide what has grown between them — or stand before the whole district and swear the only oath worth keeping, skin to skin, no man's leave asked.
An open-door sapphic Viking romance with a hard-won HEA. Perfect for fans of Shelley Parker-Chan and Samantha Shannon.
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LGBTQ+ / LesbianHistorical / VikingAction & Adventure
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The Sworn Sagas
