Thursday, November 17, 2016

My Thor's Day Viking Reading


BOOK ONE OF THE SONS OF ODIN SERIES

Obsession. Treachery. Revenge. Redemption. Certain themes resonate across the centuries.

In ninth-century Ireland, Selia is a girl on the verge of womanhood, frustrated by the confines of her gender and resentful of the freedom her brother boasts of. Intelligent and resourceful in a time when neither is valued in a female, she longs for an escape from her sheltered existence. Fascinated by the tales of Viking raids told by her maidservant, Selia’s hunger for independence is fed through the stories of heathen ferocity she hears at the woman’s knee.

A decision to sneak to the city’s harbor to view the Viking longships leads to an encounter with Alrik Ragnarson, a charismatic Viking warlord whose outward beauty masks a dark and tortured mind. With the knowledge that her father is about to announce her betrothal to a man she doesn’t love, Selia marries Alrik and within a day is on the longship bound for Norway and a new life.

While Selia’s relationship with her new husband grows, her friendship with his brother Ulfrik grows as well. And as Alrik’s character flaws come to light and tension mounts between the two brothers, Selia begins to have misgivings about her hasty marriage . . . especially when a secret from the past is revealed, one that threatens to destroy them all.
Excerpt

Thursday, December 5, 2013

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

Norse Jewel by Gina Conkle
Blurb
 Stolen by marauding Danes, Helena’s desperate to escape their camp. She wants to return home but the wolf-eyed Viking who bought her has his own plans.



Wearied of living by the sword, Hakan wants a quiet farmer’s life, yet peace eludes the chieftain. His once tranquil homeland’s in turmoil, and his new Frankish thrall vexes him for her freedom at every turn. Even worse, the fair maid lures him with her laughter and smiles. Betrayal has left the warrior cold to other women until one hot summer changes everything. Hakan’s icy heart thaws to his clever thrall. Helena weaves happiness into his hard life, and she soon questions her own desires. But, shadows of deceit spread across the kingdom, reaching Hakan’s farm. Old loyalties call on the Viking to wield his sword again, but at what cost? Before summer ends, master and thrall must answer the hardest question…

Thursday, August 8, 2013

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

The Viking's Witch by Kelli A Wilkins
Scotland, 803 A.D.




About to be burned at the stake by her fellow villagers, Odaria does what any betrayed witch facing certain death would do. She calls down a curse. Within seconds, rampaging Norsemen raid the village, capturing everyone except her.



But her reprieve is short-lived, and Odaria lands in the clutches of the Norse leader Rothgar. Can she remain true to herself and fight her growing attraction to this domineering man, or will she fall under his influence and be used for his ambitions?



After Rothgar witnesses Odaria’s powers firsthand, he strikes a bargain with her. The raven-haired beauty will use her magical abilities to help him with his quest in exchange for safe passage off the isle. But can this cunning woman be trusted, or is she using him to exact vengeance on her village?



Together they must fight bloodthirsty villagers, battle a mutinous band of Norsemen, find a missing Norse ship, and learn to trust each other . . . before time is up.

Thursday, July 25, 2013

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

To Sin with A Viking by Michelle Willington
Blurb

PLAYING WITH FIRE!


Caragh Ó Brannon defended herself bravely when the enemy landed—only, now she finds herself alone with one very angry Viking….

Styr Hardrata sailed to Ireland intending to trade, never expecting to find himself held captive in chains by a beautiful Irish maiden.

The fiercely handsome warrior both terrifies and allures Caragh, but he is forbidden territory. He is the enemy…and he is married. Yet Styr harbors a secret that just might set them both free….

Forbidden Vikings
Resist them if you can!

Thursday, July 4, 2013

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

Tiernan's Punishment by Faith V Smith
Blurb

Punishment? Or Fate?

When Tiernan, king of the Seelie court, allows a mortal into the Faery realm, he is banished to ancient Norway without his magick. Dropped right into a battle between two warring Viking clans, he is taken prisoner by the beautiful and sensual Mista, who refuses to believe he is from another time and place.

As Einarsson Chieftain, Mista protects those who have sworn fealty to her. Although she captures the handsome warrior wearing the enemy's chain mail, she spares him, making him a slave until he is proven innocent...or not. The fact he seems slightly deranged takes nothing away from his sexy good looks.

Their growing attraction is interrupted when Mista's home is attacked. But Tiernan, whether slave or king, with magick or without, is determined that no mortal will hurt the one woman who could be his soul mate.

Thursday, June 20, 2013

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

Blind Allegiance by Violetta Rand

Blurb
She’ll always fight for what she believes in…

Betrayed by a brother she hardly trusted before the bloodthirsty Viking, Jarl Randvior Sigurdsson, attacks her home, Noelle Sinclair is conveniently bartered as a means to save her cowardly sibling’s skin. Forced to leave her homeland and accompany the petulant Viking to the untamed wilderness of central Norway, Noelle is ever-aware of the burgeoning dangers around her—including her weakening resolve to resist Randvior.

Should Noelle surrender to his resplendent charms and seduction, or fight with every ounce of strength she possesses to get home?

Thursday, March 28, 2013

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

Kiss of Temptation by Sandra Hill

Blurb

IS IT LUST?
Ivak Sigurdsson is dead...well, sort of. Guilty of the sin of lust, he’s been given an unusual penance: spend eternity as a Viking Vampire Angel, or Vangel, fighting Lucipires, Satan’s vampire demons on earth. Now sequestered in Angola Prison as a “spiritual advisor,” Ivak is finding all these centuries of celibacy depressing, to say the least. But then, along comes southern belle Gabrielle Sonnier. Is she a reward for his good deeds, or a temptation sent to rattle his lustsome brain?

OR IS IT LOVE?
Gabrielle, a lawyer, begs Ivak to help get her brother out of prison. Aided by the Cajun LeDeux family and their chief looney bird, Tante Lulu, Ivak reluctantly agrees. And while he alternately tries to seduce and save Gabrielle before the Lucipires run rampant, they both begin to wonder if it’s really only lust, or something more.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

Vanquishing A Viking by Nancy Dillman

Blurb
Modern attitudes clash with medieval mores when Esme Pederson, a small-town librarian from Minnesota, time travels to Viking Norway and is sold as a bed slave to a fierce warrior bitter over his dead wife's infidelity. The last thing Stein Magnuson needs is another woman to complicate his life, especially one who thinks females have rights! Irresistibly drawn to each other, however, their passion flares hotter than an Icelandic volcano. But can love bloom when neither is willing to compromise and all they ever do is argue?


Thursday, January 31, 2013

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

The Shipwreck by Glynnis Campbell
Blurb

THE SHIPWRECK...the legend of Rivenloch is born!


When his wife and children die, Viking marauder Brandr has nothing left to live for, so he sails away on one final voyage. A storm at sea leaves him shipwrecked, alone, and barely alive on a foreign coastline.

Along the Pictish shore, Avril, a warrior maid and the victim of a Viking berserker, banished from her ancestral home of Rivenloch to a seaside cottage, dreams of the day she’ll raise her sword, take back the castle that is rightfully hers, and find her half-Viking daughter a proper father.

Discovering a broad-shouldered, fair-haired, broken castaway washed up on her beach among the wreckage of his longship, she takes him captive and binds him in chains. She refuses to be a Viking’s victim again...never imagining that soon her fiercest enemy will earn her trust, invade her heart, and enthrall her senses.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

Death Blow by Jianne Carlo
Blurb

Can a mere Viking break the curse of a sea god?

Cursed by the sea-god Ægir to be burned at the stake, Lady Nyssa seeks the one man who can save her--the warrior who bears the mark of the Saracen. When she finds a Viking warrior wounded and senseless on a beach, she knows he is her savior. But Ægir’s wrath extends to others in her life as well. He’s killed her father and stepmother, turned her stepbrother into a mountain lion, and imprisoned her people. And worse, he’s cursed any man who lays with her to have his manparts wither and die.

Konáll has traded coin a-plenty to gain a wife with lands, the daughter of the King of Moray. He expects a refined, comely, trainable damsel, not a doomed warrior princess with the strength of a giantess who cannot bear the touch of a man. But once he learns more about this woman who speaks to talking mountain cats and hides as a peasant among the rabble, he cannot deny his feelings. There’s more than one way to breech a maidenhead, and if teaching her the ways of a woman’s pleasure with a carved ivory dildo is what it takes to make her his, then he’s more than happy to challenge the wrath of a god…

Thursday, December 13, 2012

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

Santa Viking by Sandra Hill
Blurb
A fun, romantic romp yule love! Meet a sexy tenth-century Viking hero and a modern day hero with a Viking heritage who both have the knack for making women melt . . . with holiday cheer. Merry Christmas from the Norse Pole.


Boltor's Bride
Bolthor the Skald has been there for his fellow warriors, both in battle and as a friend. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride, so to speak. This gentle giant, now scarred and retired from the fray, has never found a woman who loves him despite his rough appearance—and his poetry, which is woefully bad.

Enter the sexy, Saxon widow Katherine of Wickshire Manor, a woman in need of a strong man to take care of her, her four children, not to mention about two hundred chickens, in the style none of her first three husbands could manage.

When Viking meets Saxon, the sparks do fly.

A VIKING FOR CHRISTMAS

Bodyguard Erik Thorsson, a fiftieth generation Viking, meets Jessica Jones, dressed as a cute Santa Claus, when she stages a righteous attempt to rob the local Piggly Jiggly. All Jessica wants is a refund for a Burping Bear toy, which the store refuses to honor.

Fortunately, or unfortunately, Jessica takes hostage another Santa in the store, Erik himself, after accidentally shooting the Little Debbie cupcake display. For the first time in five years, since his beloved wife died, Erik finds himself head over Santa boot heels in love, but how to convince Jessica that he's not her Christmas curse, but instead a Christmas miracle.

Sandra Hill is the bestselling author of more than thirty romantic humor novels. Whether they be historicals, contemporaries, time travels, or Christmas novellas, whether they be Vikings, Cajuns, Navy SEALs or sexy Santas, the common element in all her books is humor. Visit her at www.sandrahill.com.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

My Thor's Day Viking Reading


The Temperate Warrior by Renee Vincent
Blurb

THE WARRIOR SAGAS, BOOK ONE

He was her champion. She was his weakness. Together, they loved with wild abandon.

Gustaf Ræliksen lives by the blade of his sword. After avenging his father’s murder and reuniting with his family, he wants nothing more than to settle down and have sons of his own. Only one woman will do—a fiery redhead he saved from the spoils of war.

No longer forced to warm the beds of the men who’ve taken everything from her, Æsa has nothing to offer the noble warrior but her heart.

When someone with a deep score to settle seeks revenge upon her, Gustaf’s world is torn asunder. He has but one vow—saving the woman he loves from the ignorant fool who dared to best the temperate warrior.


Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Free Viking Romance

Wild Viking Princess by Anna Markland
Blurb

She was stubborn, beautiful and independent. Since childhood she had been teased with the nickname Wild Viking Princess because of her Danish ancestry. No man could tame her...until she met a real Viking!

Thursday, November 29, 2012

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

Kiss of Surrender by Sandra Hill
Blurb
It's not easy being a Vampire Angel.

No one knows that better than Trond Sigurdsson. In the centuries since he last went out drinking and wenching with his Viking buds, Trond has been a gladiator, a cowboy, a ditch digger . . . even a sheik. But now he's the baddest of them all: a kick-ass Navy SEAL kicking butts of terrorist immortals with the help of his hotter-than-Hades female partner, police officer-turned-Special Forces operative Nicole Tasso—whom Trond dearly hopes to "partner" with very shortly in a whole different way.

The "cop" part of Nicole tells her there's something bizarre about her gorgeous godlike teammate. But her "all-woman" side can't help wondering how great it would be to have a virile Viking in her bed. Trond has secrets galore, but Nicole feels certain she can dig them out—and really get to the heart of this powerful, unnerving stranger whom she may be risking her soul to love.

Monday, November 26, 2012

Free Viking Romance

Besieged by Jade Black
Blurb
Besieged is the prequel to the Death Row series.

While studying the indigenous people of Alaska for her anthropology dissertation, Peggy Brannigan is hunted down and kidnapped in the arctic by a mysterious Nordic male determined to keep her as a breeding mate.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Free Viking Romance


Twin Passions by Miriam Minger
Blub
Beautiful, feminine Anora finds her wedding plans suddenly shattered. She and her identical twin, tomboyish Gwendolyn, are kidnapped and taken aboard a Viking ship. While the handsome captain mistakes Gwendolyn for a boy and appoints her his servant, Anora captures his heart and he vows to have her. To preserve her sister's maidenhood, Gwendolyn initiates a dangerous game. Will the twins be rescued before Gwendolyn surrenders to her own passion?


Thursday, October 11, 2012

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

Malice Striker (Viking Vengeance) by Jianne Carlo

Blurb
Can a mere mortal Viking tame the daughter of a goddess?


When Scotland’s King Kenneth orders his death and kidnaps his sister, the Viking Brökk—the Malice Striker—plans his vengeance: he’ll steal the king’s bastard daughter from Sumbarten Abbey and use her to buy his sister's freedom. But his schemes go awry when his liege lord commands him to wed Skatha—and when he finds five women instead of one at the Abbey, none will claim the King as father.

When the Viking abducts Skatha and her women, she’s bewildered. Why did Brökk seize her? Why does he want her for his wife? She weds him willingly enough when he threatens to kill her companions, but she vows to control her own destiny and escape. For if the Viking discovers her secrets, the laws of his people will force him to cast her aside…or kill her. And even Skatha, daughter of a goddess, might not escape the Viking’s wrath…

Thursday, October 4, 2012

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

A Viking's Love by Karolyn Cairns

Blurb
Allisande of Lockwraithe paid the price for her father's treachery when the Viking invaders destroyed her home and abducted her for ransom.


The Viking leader, Joran Ivarsson, swore to make her suffer as his slave. One look into his fiery slave's eyes and he was the one enslaved.

Allisande expected to suffer at her captors hands, not feel the first stirrings of desire for her barbaric new master.

Forced into slavery in a harsh, unyielding land, she comes to understand the man who owns her. Sworn to hate him forever for the death of her father, Allisande learns the insidious truths that make her question all she has ever known.

Joran the Stonehearted, he is nicknamed, for his lack of softness for women and mercy in battle. Allisande undermines his best intentions to remain aloof to her, cracking the granite layers of his heart, making him question his using her as an instrument of revenge.

Slave soon conquers master as the fires of passion bring them closer. A force of wills clash and a tragic circumstance drives them apart.

Allisande and Joran become embroiled in a bitter web of deceit when Joran's father seeks his ultimate revenge against his enemies. Joran must choose between the woman who owns his heart and the father he has sworn loyalty to.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

Her Viking Warrior by Cheryl Alldredge
Blurb

Her Viking Warrior
A Viking Time-Travel Romance Short Story
Now available as a standalone e-book on Amazon. This story will also appear in the Time Travel anthology, A Twist in Time, due out later this year.

About the story:
Hours after her Inuit grandmother presses an ancient Viking pendant into her hand, trauma surgeon Melina Anana wakes up in a Viking longhouse and more than 1100 years in the past. Her only hope of returning home safely is under the protection of one sexy Viking warrior—a man who could steal her heart.

After five years serving in the treacherous ranks of the Byzantine guard, Erik journeys back to his native lands in Norway only to find his father on his death bed and his people on the brink of war. Only a woman out of time can heal his father and ensure the peace, but will Erik be able to hold her there long enough to fulfill her destiny?

Insiders' Note: Beth and Gunnar from In Time For Christmas make an appearance in Her Viking Warrior!

Thursday, September 6, 2012

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

A Viking's Return by Cassandra Zara
Blurb

In an ancient time, a young girl waits for her lover to return. Despite Eydis' best efforts, she knows she will be married off soon to another. Will Arlan return in time, and will he still be the man of her dreams?


This 4500 word story features a young couple in love and their steamy romance, with two love scenes showing the passion of youth and the excitement of reunited lovers.

Eydis was pretty, and she knew that she could not wait for Arlan forever. Even though she insisted that she be able to wait for the boat to return, it had been over a year since it had left, and some of the men of the local villages were quite insistent. Her father was sympathetic, telling men that came with dowries that she wasn't ready yet. Her mother was gradually trying to convince her to find a husband, someone to take care of her. She said that it was summer love, and that sometimes these things weren’t meant to be. She knew that if she settled with another man, if she had his children, Arlan would never forgive her, and she would never be truly happy. She walked carefully when she was off her father’s farm- some of the looks she got were from men that wouldn't take no for an answer if they found her alone and could force her into marrying them through a pregnancy.

It was all she thought about most days, and this day around noon her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a little girl in the village, Brynja, yelling about boats in the horizon. She climbed the ladder next to the house until she could see the shore. Was it him? Had he returned? She could see the white sails bobbing in the bay as small figures emerged from the returning ships. She bolted to the field where they had always met, where he would look for her. An hour passed, then two. She thought about going back to the village but she was afraid of the rough men that would come back with him, or, worse, that she would find he never came back at all. She played with her two braided pigtails while she thought about what she would do if he didn't come. The ships had returned and if he was not on them, she would be left to the mercy of her scorned suitors.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

The Eagle's Woman by Miriam Newman

Blurb
Son of an impoverished, dying Norse chieftain, Ari raids for booty and slaves so he can feed his people. Pagan himself, still he spares priests though he sells them. He’s a heathen, a murderer, and it is a sin for any Christian woman to love him. Yet when he abducts Maeve from her peaceful Irish fishing village, he may have found the one woman who can.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

The Viking's Witch by Kelli A. Wilkins

Blurb
Scotland, 803 A.D. About to be burned at the stake by her fellow villagers, Odaria does what any betrayed witch facing certain death would do. She calls down a curse. Within seconds, rampaging Norsemen raid the village, capturing everyone except her. But her reprieve is short-lived, and Odaria lands in the clutches of the Norse leader Rothgar. Can she remain true to herself and fight her growing attraction to this domineering man, or will she fall under his influence and be used for his ambitions? After Rothgar witnesses Odaria’s powers firsthand, he strikes a bargain with her. The raven-haired beauty will use her magical abilities to help him with his quest in exchange for safe passage off the isle. But can this cunning woman be trusted, or is she using him to exact vengeance on her village? Together they must fight bloodthirsty villagers, battle a mutinous band of Norsemen, find a missing Norse ship, and learn to trust each other . . . before time is up.

Thursday, July 5, 2012

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

Lord of Fire and Ice by Connie Mason with Mia Marlowe

Blurb
Brandr the Far-Traveled is revered by his fellow vikings: his bed skills are the stuff of steamy legend, his sword sings of death on the field of battle, and he can call up fire from thin air. Enslaved through trickery, he’s determined to woo his new owner into freeing him. Too bad her heart’s as icy as the frozen North. Katla is sworn to avenge her husband’s death at the hands of Brandr’s father. But she didn’t count on Brandr’s dangerous masculinity or the way he awakens her long forgotten desires. Can Brandr seduce his way free, or will love make slaves of them both?

Thursday, June 28, 2012

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

Desperate Dream of a Viking by Anna Patterson

Blurb
This is the story of a Viking whose life has been one of the utmost danger. He is recovering from wounds in a battle when he risks his life swimming out to what he believes is a sea nymph. This is a paranormal historical romance of magic and love!


Thursday, June 14, 2012

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

Love: Ann and the Viking by Kristin Battestella

Blurb
The Vampire Family has a long and torrid past, present, and future. In FATE and FANGS, the family's Occult scholar Professor A. James shares vampire vignettes of love, punishment, struggle, debauchery, lust, humanity, and resurrection. In this medieval tale, scorned vampire mistress Ann leaves vampire family patriarch Antonio behind, travels across Britain, and encounters a wayward Viking named Eric. Will Ann accept her true vampiric nature and turn her Nordic lover into a vampire?

Thursday, June 7, 2012

My Thor's Day Viking Reading

Her Viking Wolf by Theodora Taylor

Blurb
When Chloe Adams was four she was abandoned on the side of the road by her shiftless shifter parents. But now she’s a DIY domestic goddess, and engaged to the hottest alpha in Colorado – that is until a time-traveling Viking werewolf shows up to claim her as his fated mate. Wait, what?!?! Hold on to your readers, this book contains not one, but two alpha males, sizzling hot mating, and nothing less than the adventure of a lifetime.



Thursday, May 10, 2012

My Thor's Day Viking Reading


Joka of the Vale by JW Cleland
Blurb
"They came from the east in the spring of the year. I had heard of such as them; the old stories of devils who ate children might have been about their kind. Their attack came silently at dawn, while most still slept and the rest moved slow in the cold. Many of our men were gone, at sea, some were fishing, and the warriors were gone a’raiding. We never thought that anyone would come a’raiding on us."


Joka was a strong, fierce young woman, a misfit even among her own Norse people for her tough character. When the raiders came, she was taken as a hostage and carried far from her home to Germania, adapting to survive, visiting strange new lands and learning that even captors can become friends, and more.

Length: Novella (Caution: Adult erotic content)