Stolen by marauding Danes, Helena's desperate to escape their camp. Her unlikely savior comes, a fierce Viking chieftain named Hakan, who takes her to the frozen north. Hakan wants to lay down his sword and live a peaceful farmer's life. Past betrayal left him cold to love, yet the Frankish woman who keeps his longhouse thaws his icy heart.

Helena wasn't born a slave. She wants nothing more than to return home, yet her stoic master fascinates her...he's as bold as the wild northlands.

But war is brewing -a kingdom's in the balance and Hakan...