A Yuletide Kiss: A Rivenloch Runaway Bride Viking Romance
Glynnis Campbell · The Warrior Maids of Rivenloch #3.5
A half-Viking shieldmaiden runs from her betrothed — and straight into his heart at Yuletide.
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Damsels in shining armor...riding to the rescue! Deirdre, Helena, and Miriel, three kick-arse Scots wenches known as The Warrior Maids of Rivenloch, aren’t about to become any man’s chattel, until they meet heroes who are strong enough to tame their wild ways and worthy enough to win their wayward hearts. A YULETIDE KISS (short story) Half-Viking shieldmaiden Kimbery of Rivenloch has until Yuletide to choose a bridegroom...or one will be chosen for her. But when the barbarian Brude the Brutal travels to claim his betrothed, he finds himself bewitched instead by a runaway bride.
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