Valkyrie Queen

In the 9th century when a ravaged England was emerging from an era of pillage, arson and rapine, and beginning instead to enjoy an era of peace with the Viking marauders, a Saxon girl called Astrid, her Viking husband, Krodin, and their five- year-old son Kol, live in the shadow of threatened vengeance from a king who wanted her for himself.

Astrid is betrayed and her safe world shattered when the Norse King Halfdan sends arrogant, black-clad Ragnar, on a mission of death.

Set against a backc...