Swan Bride by Betina Lindsey is the 1st in her Swan Maiden Trilogy of f/m historical fantasy romances which crossover vaguely-Celtic hidden-magical-realm residents with the "real world" and are apparently vaguely based on one of those swan fairy tales, this installment landing the heroine into some sort of Viking captivity scenario, free courtesy of publisher Diversion Books, who are e-printing it from a 1990 Pocket Books edition.
Currently free @
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK) &
iTunes (available to Canadians and most regions worldwide, as Diversion freebies often are).
If you happen to like this one and wish to read more, the rest of the trilogy (with fewer Vikings in further installments), as well as others of Lindsey's backlist romances, are now also reprinted via Diversion Books for a reasonably low price, and couponable @
Kobo.
Description
Moira grew to womanhood in the realm of Myr, wise in the arts of women.. and utterly innocent of the ways of men. All of that changes tonight.
Moira wondered, trembling. She passes through the circle of stones into the world of men. There, she meets Wulfsun, every mesmerizing inch a man, hard muscled and tawny maned. No Viking was more feared, until he captures a maiden as beautiful as moonlit shadows, and is enslaved for all time. He would have her willing or not at all, though his blood coursed hot with wanting. And though Moira wore a golden collar of thralldom, her desire for the mighty warrior was the greater bondage.