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Valhalla Press is proud to announce the debut
novel by Darci Hannah:
THE VIKING
In the year 1744, a young Norwegian woman, Kristen Olavsson, takes comfort in an old Norwegian adage which suggested that no problem was so great that it couldn't be resolved over a strong cup of coffee (or healthy dousing of aquavit) followed by an earnest prayer. But after overindulging in both libations (the prayer quite beyond her capabilities) Kristen Olavsson soon finds that in spite of her best efforts--in spite of her throbbing headache and raging nerves--her world is about to change.
When a long-held secret is revealed to Kristen by her dying mother, she learns that she is to leave the comforts of her childhood home in Utmerket Dal Norway to travel to England, her mother's homeland, where an unknown man awaits her arrival. And though it seemed as if Clare Montgomery Olavsson had thought of everything to ensure her daughter's future comfort and happiness, she had failed to recognize the one true obstruction to the perfect plan… her own daughter.
As Kristen struggles with the course of her new destiny, cursing her luck and going so far as to seek the blasphemous advice of the ancient Norse Gods, she learns that she is powerless to stop the train of events already set in motion; a train of events confounded yet further by her own father, Captain Steffan Olavsson, a man with his own ship The Viking and his own agenda. But when, on her last jaunt through her native land, Kristen stumbles across an ancient Viking burial ground, unearthing two mysterious amulets, one pagan, the other Christian, the word 'cursed' begins to take on a whole new meaning for both the Captain and his daughter.
So begins the epic, Odyssey-like adventure of the intrepid Kristen Olavsson, a young woman whose high moral standards, uninhibited sense of adventure, and yes, romantic sensibilities entertain and delight as she navigates her way through the turbulent waters of the mid-18th century in search of love… and her ultimate destiny.