title: To Tempt a Viking (Forbidden Vikings)
author:  Michelle Willingham 
description: "Readers love Willingham's Viking heroes! The conclusion to her Forbidden Vikings duet is a passionate and captivating tale of star-crossed lovers and second chances. The story is emotionally charged, with smoldering sensuality, memorable characters and sexy Vikings."<br />-4 stars, <i>Romantic Times Magazine</i>
zlib_text: **THE VIKING PICKED HER UP IN ONE SMOOTH MOTION.**
  
  “Wife,” he said cuttingly, “you call me a barbaric animal, yet you continually
  feel safe to taunt me. I suppose I must prove to you that I am a civil man
  wishing nothing other than your most pleasurable existence. You do not care to
  scrub my back, therefore I will humble myself and scrub yours.”
  
  Erin could not free herself from him and one glance into the blue fire of his
  eyes started her shivering with dismay. There was little time for her to do
  more than issue the single protest “No!” before finding herself dropped into
  the tub.
  
  “How remiss of me,” he muttered. “I can’t scrub your back when there is cloth
  upon it, can I?”
  
  “Damn you, Viking! I don’t want my back scrubbed!” Erin cried desperately as
  he held her with one hand while he eased the soaking linen up and over her
  head. She struggled with him, attempting to stand. But that only brought her
  nude and wet body colliding with his, and she shuddered as if touched by fire.
  
  “Rel