Diana Groe

Historical/10th Century Scandinavia and Constantinople

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Bjorn the Black is a viking and pillaging when he captures a woman grieving over the slain body of the man she called father. As happens in the best of delicious, Old School-style viking novels, Bjorn enslaves the self-possessed Rika, though he doesn't realize she's an acclaimed singer of Norse lore.

Bjorn planned to keep Rika as his bed-slave but decides against it as he becomes smitten with her courage and dignity.

Yet Rika knows it's just a matter of time until she does the very thing he predicts -- begs him to take her in passion worthy of one of the powerful love songs she sings to him in the dark of night.

Diana Groe creates a fresh take on the "viking and virgin" theme many of us aren't afraid to say we love. Her great writing and research skills, as well as her ability to weave a good old-fashioned love story with heft, make her an author to watch.

Look for Groe's "Erinsong" in November from Dorchester.