Sworn To The Northman

A Spicy Viking Marriage of Convenience Romance

von Melinda Hawthorne

336 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

She rode into the Northman's stronghold with a contract in her saddlebag and a price on her own head.

Two years ago, Norse longships burned Avelina de Brionne's village to the waterline. She saved two-thirds of her village. She rebuilt the weir with her own hands. She has held her father's dying estate together on nothing but arithmetic and refusal ever since.

Now the raiders are coming back - and Avelina has done the only math that works.

She will ride eight miles to the jarl who commands them.

She will offer him a marriage of convenience.

And she will write every term of it herself.

Jarl Haldor Stensson expected a frightened noblewoman reciting her father's words. He did not expect a woman who speaks his language, reads his hall like a coastline, and hands him a bride-price calculated more precisely than he could have calculated it himself.

He is not what the stories promised, either.

He is trying to turn a raiding camp into a country - and raise a five-year-old daughter who watches doorways like a sentry.

He takes the bargain.

He does not touch her.

Because five years ago, Haldor swore a vow over a dying woman's hand: never again to take what was not freely given.

So on their wedding night, he takes a fur and the floor.

What grows across one brutal winter is slower than desire and far more dangerous.

She counts his grain stores before dawn and finds the theft his household missed for a season. His daughter, who trusts no one, begins to follow her through the yard. And the political marriage alliance they both swore was only arithmetic becomes something neither of them negotiated for.

But a Frankish lord is circling the border with a courteous smile and a very long memory - and everything Avelina built with numbers, he intends to take apart with patience.

She has one winter to find out whether a contract can become a home.

Tropes: Marriage of Convenience Historical Romance - Arranged Marriage Viking Romance - Slow Burn Historical Romance - Alpha Hero Protective Romance - Forced Proximity - Found Family - He Falls First

A standalone spicy Viking romance. No cheating. No cliffhanger. HEA guaranteed.

She negotiated everything except falling in love with him.

Step into a world of Viking longhouses, dangerous alliances, and a marriage that begins as arithmetic and becomes something neither of them can afford to lose. "Buy now" and ride with Avelina to the gates of Stenborg.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175050104
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2026
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Independently published