Böcker av Maureen Castell

She was born a lady. He was raised a Viking. They weren't supposed to fall in love. Sixteen years ago a mysterious sky ship crashed through a hole in the world, dragging a trio of Norse ships into the seas of Bronze Age Northern Europe three thousand years before their time. Beren was a child when the Norsemen arrived. He grew up learning the ways of his adoptive family and is now skilled in sword and bow. However, he is not eager to follow the path expected of him. His heart-parents are both great warriors and he...is not. He'd rather tinker with the sky ship's cargo and the small portals they open. Then, one day, he succeeds in opening a hole large enough for a man to walk through...or a woman to run. When newly widowed Lady Elizabeth Conroy flees the pirates who killed her husband, she finds herself in a room full of Vikings. But these are not the savage barbarians she's read about, even if they won't answer her questions: how did she step from a ship in the middle of the Caribbean into a stone room on the shores of Denmark; why does one of her rescuers look more Arab prince than Norse warrior; and why do her hosts speak of 18th century England as if it is farther away than a few hundred miles? What will Elizabeth do when she finds out her home doesn't exist, that she's trapped in the past with no way back to her own time, and that the man she's falling in love with is responsible?

They were born three thousand years apart, but fate brought them together. Dragged into the ancient past by a crashing spaceship, Tor and his fellow Vikings face starvation in an autumn that is six months too early. Then they meet the mysterious Kiana, and the villagers whose winter shelter has been destroyed by the spaceship. Uneasy allies at first, these two leaders find unexpected love as they join forces to build a home together, until Kiana's enemies threaten her new life.