I am delighted to share my review today for The Viking Chief’s Marriage Alliance by Lucy Morris. It has been many, many years since I last read a Mills & Boon book and I have to say I really enjoyed this one.

A challenging wife

For a warrior Viking

When Thorstein Bergson rescues a beautiful woman from a storm-tossed longship, he little expects to broker a powerful marriage alliance with her. This high-status ice queen is not the comfortable wife the warrior chief is seeking. But maybe the bittersweet pain in Gyda’s eyes hides another woman beneath? The one he tasted that first night when she’d kissed him with such pent-up longing…?

My Review…

It’s not often I pick up this sort of romance read, but I am so glad I chose this one. It is a relatively quick read and one I read over one evening.

Gyda has not had the best of married life, and now as her husband has died she is leaving to try a fresh start. Her belongings are lost in a shipwreck near the Northumberland coast. She is rescued by a local chieftain Thorstein Bergsen.

Both Gyda and Thorstein have been married before, both are wary of each other. Gyda is seen as aloof and wealthy, Thorstein as rude and surly. But as much as both characters are opposite there is some attraction, they cannot however trust each other. They have been wronged in the past and are unwilling to be put in that position again. It seems presumptions are the name of the game in this story, but the author does work this very well.

I did really enjoy how the author built up this story, marriages of convenience for beneficial gains can be successful. The author didn’t choose this route for our out main characters, instead, she gave them both a past that made them wary and untrusting. That is until they do not have a choice.

While this is a historical-based story it is also a romance and one that the author has woven some magic with. Not only is there an interesting storyline, but there is also some wonderful descriptions of life, scenery and becoming part of a community. Then of course there is the romance, a wonderful will they/won’t they tense build-up that had me addictively turning the pages.

A wonderful historical romance and one that I was glad to have picked up to read. A chance to read a Viking romance that has more to it than first meets the eye, a story with intrigue, betrayal and a gorgeous sounding leading man! I liked it a lot and I would definitely recommend it.

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