title: A Viking for the Viscountess (A Most Peculiar Season) (Volume 1)
author:  Michelle Willingham 
description: Bestselling author and Rita Award Finalist Michelle Willingham has published over thirty romance novels, novellas, and short stories. Currently, she lives in southeastern Virginia with her husband and children and is working on more historical romance books in a variety of settings such as: Viking era Ireland, medieval Scotland, Victorian England, Regency England, and medieval Ireland. When she's not writing, Michelle enjoys baking, playing the piano, and avoiding exercise at all costs. Visit her website at: michellewillingham.com.
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  A Viking
  
  for the
  
  Viscountess
  
  by
  
  Michelle Willingham
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any
  similarity to persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the
  author.
  
  Text copyright © 2014 Michelle Willingham
  
  All rights reserved
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or
  transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying,
  recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the author.
  
  Published by Michelle Willingham
  
  [www.michellewillingham.com](http://www.michellewillingham.com)
  
  ISBN-13: 9780990634508
  
  ISBN-10: 0990634507
  
  Cover by Robert Papp and [The Font Diva](http://www.thefontdiva.com)
  
  Digital formatting by Author E.M.S.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  
  EAST ANGLIA, 811
  
  He would die in an hour. Perhaps sooner, if the gods called to him.
  
  Arik Thorgrim lay prone upon the deck of his ship, feeling his strength
  slipping away as the blood pooled ben