title: Viking (Eyewitness Guides)
author: Susan Margeson
description: Follow the Vikings as they set out in their magnificent clinker-style ships to conquer Europe, explore their everyday lives, and sail with them on their last voyage to Valhalla, in the unique style of the "Eyewitness Guides" series. This book follows these daring adventurers in their search for gold, silver, and slaves. But the Vikings were also skilled engineers and craftsmen and this book features examples of their beautiful jewellery, iron and woodwork of their longships and fortresses. It also shows readers how to write runes, get a Viking divorce, and understand the meaning of Norse legends and sagas.
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  Fireworks at the Lake
  by Berengaria Brown
   
  Chapter One
   
  Andrew had spent most of the afternoon trying not to stare at the blond Viking stretched out on a
  lawn chair with the ripples from the lake running up and over his toes. The blond had removed his T-
  shirt and placed his Stetson over his face, but not before Andrew had seen the intense blue of his eyes
  and the sharp ridge of his nose. Since then Andrew had spent his time appreciating the Viking’s
  muscled arms and shoulders, his ripped abs and the long, long line of his legs - right down to the toes
  currently buried under an inch of water. Long, narrow toes, a fitting ending to the long, lean legs that
  disappeared inside baggy, knee-length shorts.
  Likely his view of the Viking was going to be the most exciting part of his Fourth of July weekend
  this year. Still life wasn’t too bad. In fact, it could have been a hell of a lot worse. A bunch of the
  people from the office had planned to spend the day at a cook-out in a city park.