The two become separated, a chasm of greed, deceit, and ambition driving them apart.
When Avelynn and Alrik are betrayed, Avelynn is captured and Alrik is charged with regicide. Marared's threats turn deadly, and Avelynn runs afoul of magic and sorcery, causing her to question her beliefs and role as priestess. With battle looming, Avelynn's faith in their relationship is further tested through a bitter struggle with Marared, a jealous lover from Alrik's past. When war threatens, Alrik embraces gold and the opportunity for his crew to become mercenaries, aiding the Southern Welsh kings in their fight against Rhodri the Great.ĭesperate to return home, Avelynn seeks to find a way to prove her innocence, but she is pitted against Alrik as their desires for the future clash.
Cast out by his half-brothers, Alrik seeks to regain his honor and earn favor with the gods. Arriving in Wales, they find refuge among Alrik's friends in the Welsh nobility. Charges of treason, murder, and witchcraft follow Avelynn into exile as she flees England with Alrik. (Sept.A brand new stand-alone historical romance from the Avelynn series! Agent: Margaret Bail, Inklings Literary Agency. The plot moves well, but characters change their minds about major issues seemingly at whim, and the complexity and depth of the political history is not written as well as the romance-which, although fairly well executed, is predictable at its heart. Though the novel is adequately researched, the heroine’s anachronistic attitudes are grating, and Campbell’s prose is clunky. The two fall in love, but Demas’s machinations, the looming Viking invasion of Britain, and Avelynn’s station in life conspire to keep them apart. Avelynn, somewhat unbelievably, is secretly a pagan after slipping away for a ritual, she encounters Alrik, a Viking boat captain on his way to Ireland. Avelynn hopes to marry for love, but her father betroths her to Demas of Wareham, whom she dislikes. in Wessex, Britain, and follows Avelynn, daughter of the Earl of Somerset. Campbell’s conventional fiction debut begins in the year 869 C.E.
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