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The Viking's Daughter

Marti Talbott · Viking #2

159 pageshistorical romance
(331)Mild

A hardworking Scottish girl caring for nine siblings meets seven Viking brothers — four of them eligible.

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At fourteen, Catrina MacGreagor was left to care for her nine siblings after her mother passed. She didn't truly mind, for she loved them all dearly, but the work was hard as well as boring, and it left her little time to consider a husband. It was just as well, for she had not yet seen a lad she truly favored. All that was about to change, however, in the form of seven brothers – four of them old enough to marry, and all of them Vikings.

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