Today Viking Warrior, Unwilling Wife is available at the Mills and Boon site. I always get an advance copy because Michelle is my CP, and we have a tradition of sending each other a hardback of our books as they arrive. It took me a while to get to it but I finished it last night.
This is Michelle's second Viking book....Taken By The Viking is out now in the US. This book features Vikar and Sela, with references to Haakon, Annis and the Lindisfarne raid from Taken By The Viking. It is a lovely story about finding love and taking risk even when people - and circumstance - work against it. There is one part when Vikar goes to see his son that is pure brilliance:
"Vikar cast his eyes up to the skies blinking rapidly, but a single tear escaped and trickled down his cheek. With impatient fingers he pushed it away."
Big warriors don't cry...except when it comes to children. And she had me with his impatient fingers. It just said so much. Vikar is a GREAT hero. There is a misunderstanding between him and Sela, and we know he is far more innocent than she thinks, and yet we are sympathetic to her because she really believed what happened was true and it hurt her deeply.
Viking Warrior, Unwilling Wife is a June release in the UK and hopefully will make its way on to the NA schedule.
FALLING FOR MR DARK AND DANGEROUS, Romance, August 08, Aus/NZ Sept. 08
THE RANCHER'S RUNAWAY PRINCESS, Romance, January 09
HIRED: THE ITALIAN'S BRIDE, Romance, June 09
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I just received her first
I just received her first Viking book not long ago and I am looking forward to reading it. The cover of that one is beautiful.
AKA Merri
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Love Medievals
Love Medievals...love, love, LOVE them!
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Jayne, me too, me too! I
Jayne, me too, me too! I have a particular fondness for Viking and Norse Medieval anything...and that was before I met my husband whose ancestors are Scandinavian. I hope now that Michelle Styles' first Viking book is in NA that we will see this one too.
Don't even ask how many times I have looked at her Viking books on the UK site!
AKA Merri
Family Challenge Team: The Spine Breakers with my dh Glenn AKA Phaedrus
What timing, Donna!
I was just telling Michelle that I loved her sexy cover design for 'Taken by the Viking', and that I've just ordered it from Harl's site. She said she liked the American cover better, but I haven't seen the Mills and Boon one, so I can't say which I prefer. I didn't even realize she was doing a series of them. I'll be sure to grab 'Viking Warrior, Unwilling Wife' when it comes out here in the states!
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