Viking: The Plains of Althing
Norse Adventure series Book I: ICELAND, 979 A.D.
A BRUTAL CHIEFTAIN. A GOOD SERVANT, BETRAYED.
A man and woman bound by love–and torn apart by a terrible secret.
Kel Coesson hates his work as the steward of a cruel chieftain. Leave, and the man will murder beautiful Aldís, the only woman Kel has ever loved.
But staying is killing Kel.
A enslaved but powerful man from a distant land becomes Kel’s unlikely ally, teaching him of a mysterious ‘third way’...while a strange inner voice inexplicably draws Aldís back towards the one place she vowed never to return.
When the chieftain commits a despicable crime, Kel must risk his own honor to finally stop the man–and Aldís must face a tyrant, choices that may cost them everything, and save nothing.
As strife grows in their troubled country, others are watching: the stealthy agent of a foreign Jarl with designs on the land’s young democracy, and a travelling bishop determined to save the souls of Iceland’s pagan people.
Lust, loyalty, and betrayal vie in a spectacular setting of lava flows, northern lights, plunging waterfalls and pagan blood sacrifice. Get your copy of THE PLAINS OF ALTHING now to experience fierce beauty and intensity of Viking-era Iceland!
Katie Aiken Ritter is a 2016 AWC Novel Award winner and 2017Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society Finalist.
VIKING: The Plains of Althing is Book 1 of the Norse Adventure series.
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