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The Viking's Defiant Bride

Joanna Fulford · Victorious Vikings #1

288 pageshistorical romance
(664)Steamy

A Viking conqueror takes her land and makes her his bride — but she refuses to surrender her spirit.

Content Warnings
dubious consentcaptivity

Description

Northumbria, 867 A.D.Beautiful and courageous, the Lady Elgiva is as great a prize as the land the Viking conqueror now controls. Earl Wulfrum has taken her home, and now he will take her--as his unwilling bride.Wulfrum is a legendary warrior, but the strong-willed Elgiva proves the greatest challenge he has ever faced. Yet her response to his touch tells him she feels the all-consuming heat as much as he. Their passionate battle can end only one way--in the marriage bed!

Victorious Vikings series

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