But it wasnt laughter that caused her stomach to flutter when the Hercules look alike claimed her lips. His claim to be a Viking from the tenth century made her smile. He skyrocketed from the water and into Maggie’s life: all sinewy muscles in a flawlessly proportioned body, a swath of long blond hair swept back from his brow. And Jorund realized the only thing that had driven him to the edge was her enticing figure. And though the befuddled Viking thought hed found heaven when he caught sight of the comely wench with the man hair and the kiss some lips, the lovely doctor simply thought him crazy. MAD ABOUT YOU His boat off course, distracted by a randy she whale whose infatuation had somehow thrust him into the twenty first century, Jorund Ericsson had cause to question his surroundings.

A singular blend of humor and romance, this breezy read will appeal to fans of Viking romances as well as mainstream historicals.

The verbal and physical sparring between Adam and Tyra is delightful, and Hill’s The Blue Viking secondary characters including Adam’s single minded Arab friend, Tyra’s scheming sisters and an accident prone orphan boy provide comic relief. Tyra, meanwhile, has plans to renounce her birthright and join the Varangian Guard in Byzantium she’s a serious fighting machine who has little interest in marriage, but her four younger sisters are forbidden to marry until she has either wed or left the country. The formidable young woman takes Adam by force to her Norse homeland, where he agrees to try trepanning Thorvald’s skull in exchange for a night with Tyra. From Publishers Weekly ‘Two years without a woman, and the first one that arouses me is wearing chain mail and scratching at her groin,’ Adam, the hero of this bizarre but humorous historical, muses upon meeting Princess Tyra of Stoneheim, a Viking warrior who wants nothing more than to be viewed as ‘one of the guys.’ Since the death of his sister, renowned Saxon healer Adam refuses to see new patients, but this doesn’t sit well with Tyra, who has come seeking help for her comatose father, King Thorvald.

Santa Viking by Sandra Hill