About the book: year / Kristen Haardrad defiantly met the gaze of the conqueror's transparent green eyes filled with cold rage. She became Royce Windhurst's captive, but she would never become his slave. This powerful Saxon lord met a worthy opponent in the person of the beautiful daughter of the Vikings - she was not inferior to him either in pride, or in strength... or in unbridled passionate desire. But Kristen knew nothing about the contradictory feelings that tore his heart: about the thirst to possess her, to hear a light, carefree laugh, but also about hatred for the crime she committed many years ago, for which she was not guilty...