The Viking's Cursed Bride

Name: The Viking's Cursed Bride
Author: Mairibeth MacMillan

by Mairibeth MacMillan

Genre: Romance Historical Adult

74 pages

Cast out by her own blood. Claimed by her enemy. Bound by a fate neither can escape.

Aoife has never truly belonged. Half Briton, half Pict, she is tolerated by her kin at best—and despised by her stepmother, despite saving them all during the brutal Norse raid on Alt Clut two years earlier. Now, Aoife is offered up in marriage to one of Strathclyde’s Viking invaders, her exile disguised as diplomacy.
Jarl Tormod needs a high-born Briton bride to secure peace and legitimacy for his new settlement on the River Clut. Aoife is meant to be a symbol—nothing more. Yet beneath her quiet defiance lies a dangerous secret, one that could cost her life if the Norse discover the truth.
As violent attacks threaten the fragile settlement, Tormod realizes he has been betrayed—and vengeance may be the only path to survival. With enemies hidden on every side, suspicion turns inward… and toward the wife he barely knows. Is Aoife the key to peace—or the architect of his ruin?
All Aoife has ever wanted is a place to belong. But in a land where loyalty is lethal and love is forbidden, uncovering the truth may demand the ultimate sacrifice—from them both.

The Viking’s Cursed Bride is a sweeping historical marriage-of-convenience romance set in ninth-century Strathclyde, Scotland. It is the first book in the Brothers of Thunder series.

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