Sandra Hill - [Vikings I 05] (40 page)

LOVE ME TENDER

“Leave it to Sandra Hill to take this fractured modern fairy tale and make it a wildly sexy and hilarious romp. Her fans will be delighted.”

SWEETER SAVAGE LOVE

“A fast-paced, sensual yet tongue-in-cheek story peppered with plenty of dynamite dumb-men jokes and riddles. This funny and uplifting read will brighten any day!”

DESPERADO

“Humorous repartee and a high degree of sensuality mix well in Hill’s tale of a wise-cracking poor boy and the aristocratic woman he loves.”

THE TARNISHED LADY

“Sandra Hill has written a sensual, vibrant, fast-paced tale of two proud lovers, their entertaining battle of wills and the steamy passion that overcomes them.”

“No one can speak with certainty
Of what is possible
For people in love.”

“He wins whose wooing is best.”

“I realized as I lay amongst the rushes,
Waiting for the girl I loved,
That, although she meant everything to me,
She was no more mine for that.”

–Hávámál
, a collection of Old Norse poems pre-11th century

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE BLUE VIKING. Copyright © 2001 by Sandra Hill. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition JUNE 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-201324-8

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