AI-FREE! 100% certified organic author-created content. No artificial intelligence was used in the writing of this book. Top 10 Viking Romance Bestseller! When his wife and children die, Viking marauder Brandr has nothing left to live for, so he sails away on one final voyage. A storm at sea leaves him shipwrecked, alone, and barely alive on a foreign coastline. Along the Pictish shore, Avril, a warrior maid and the victim of a Viking berserker, banished from her ancestral home of Rivenloch to a seaside cottage, dreams of the day she'll raise her sword, take back the castle that is rightfully hers, and find her half-Viking daughter a proper father. Discovering a broad-shouldered, fair-haired, broken castaway washed up on her beach among the wreckage of his longship, she takes him captive and binds him in chains. She refuses to be a Viking's victim again...never imagining that soon her fiercest enemy will earn her trust, invade her heart, and enthrall her senses. THE SHIPWRECK Origin Novella for The Warrior Maids of Rivenloch Damsels in shining armor...riding to the rescue! Deirdre, Helena, and Miriel, three kick-arse Scots wenches known as The Warrior Maids of Rivenloch, aren't about to become any man's chattel, until they meet heroes who are strong enough to tame their wild ways and worthy enough to win their wayward hearts. In This Series The Warrior Maids of Rivenloch9th Century - THE SHIPWRECK (a novella)9th Century - A YULETIDE KISS (a short story)1136 - LADY DANGER1136 - CAPTIVE HEART1136 - KNIGHT'S PRIZE Key Themes: Viking historical romance, adventure stories, strong women, Scottish brides, ancient Picts, shipwreck, women warriors, Viking invader, captive, hostage, ransom, outcast, exile, princess, single mom, child of rape, missing father, stories with humor