Fury of a Viking
The MacLomain Series
Viking Ancestors’ Kin
Book 4
Sky Purington
Genre: Time-travel Fantasy Romance
Date of Publication: April 17th, 2017
ASIN: B01N4P4IO4
Number of pages: 295
Word Count: 94,000
Cover Artist: Tamra Westberry
Of dragon blood, Matthew Sigdir has suffered more loss than most. A wife. Sister. Now, because of a vicious enemy, possibly his son, Håkon. Infuriated, determined to find his child, he heads north over unforgiving land. What he doesn’t expect is a twenty-first century little girl and her beautiful mother, Shannon, to join him on his quest. Nor does he expect Hel to show them favor. And there’s no turning away Loki’s daughter when she offers help. Now they have to navigate not only through the elements of a wicked Scandinavian winter but Helheim itself, the underworld of the dead.
While they travel, Matthew and Shannon are forced to face their pasts. What they left behind and all that haunts them. As they do, old wounds heal. Hope grows. Love sparks. Through it all, Emily leads them ever closer to Håkon. She’s the key. But is it already too late? Will they make it in time to save Matthew's son? Or is the enemy one step ahead of them?
“Yes,” he
murmured. Yet the second she went to move, he grabbed her wrist gently. When he
spoke, she realized he had, in fact, processed all of what she’d said. More
than that, he must be catching glimpses of what she had seen. “There’s more to
this. More to Uncle Kjar having my son. Somehow, they’re in that other place.
Helheim.” He clenched his jaw as he struggled to come to terms with that. It
seemed he had also telepathically caught what she hadn’t told him based on what
he said next. “Do not put Emily’s life at risk for this, Shannon.” He shook his
head. “And don’t put yours at risk either.”
She could tell
by the way he said it, the emotion in his voice, that he fully understood why
she held back. More than that, he agreed with her. He didn’t want Emily in
harm’s way. Even if she could lead him to his son.
“I’m so sorry,”
she whispered, guilt ridden. But she had to put her daughter first. “I just
can’t put my baby in that kind of danger.” Emotion thickened her throat just
like it had his. “Please forgive me.”
“There is
nothing to forgive.” He cupped her cheek. “I would not allow you or Emily to be
put in harm’s way. Not for anything, Shannon.”
“But he’s your
son,” she managed to say into his mind because her vocal chords refused to
work. “How can you…”
The next thing
she knew his lips brushed hers. It was brief but so profound she lost her
breath as he pulled away just enough that their lips remained centimeters from
one another. “One of our children is already in harm’s way. Another will not be
added to it.”
Shannon barely
processed his words she was so caught up in his taste lingering on her lips.
Had he said our children? He had, right? Yet she couldn’t focus on that. All
she could do was run her tongue over her lips and relish the flavor. His flavor.
It almost felt like she could taste what he was made of. And it wasn’t what she
expected.
“You used to
laugh and smile all the time,” she whispered before she could stop herself. For
a flicker of a moment, she could see his smile. Hear his laughter. Then it
faded. Long ago. Shannon closed her eyes and pulled away. He had been taken
down a path he didn’t deserve all because there was a glitch in the system. All
because…
Her eyes shot
open.
The cave was
gone. The water at her feet vanished. Now she stood on a shore with hundreds of
men and women coming together. Vikings with their blades drawn and fury on
their faces. Battle raged. Matthew, Sigrunn, Freydis and so many more, fought,
determined to conquer.
This was the
infamous battle that took so much from Matthew.
Seconds later he
vanished yet the battle raged on.
Yet she knew
where he went.
It all made
sense now.
Sky Purington is the bestselling author of over twenty-five novels and several novellas. A New Englander born and bred, Sky was raised hearing stories of folklore, myth and legend. When combined with a love for nature, romance and time-travel, elements from the stories of her youth found release in her books.
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Love those colors in the cover!
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