Edin's Embrace

Like the other reviewers, I LOVED this book. I read the entire book in one sitting -- which was a mistake because I wish I would have taken my time to read it. Stereotypical romance -- my husband guessed the plot in 2 seconds even though he's never read a romance novel ever (bad pillaging Viking captures girl, girl turns Viking into nice guy)-- but the characters are HOT and the setting is great, especially if you like Vikings!

On the night before her wedding, Vikings attack the home of Saxon noblewoman Edin. They kill her future husband, pillage and burn down her home and take her and several servants captive. The Viking's leader, Thoryn Kirkynson, plans to sell Edin, his beautiful new "thrall" (slave), but soon desires her too much and therefore keeps her. Despite her courage and the fact that Thoryn begins to care for her, it is very difficult for the gentle and highborn Edin to deal with her new situation among the often violent Vikings. And Thoryn has a hard time accepting his feelings for the Saxon woman, especially since his father was murdered by his thrall-lover... This is one of the best Viking-romances I've ever read. The characters and the story are interesting and realistic, the conflicts not artificial but credible, and so are their solutions. You are really taken into this culture and its people, up to the point of a man and woman finding together emotionally and sexually in a time when a woman's consent and pleasure were generally not required and few men gave even a thought to that question, and when men saw love and consideration as a weakness in themselves. So the problems these two have to deal with in themselves and each other make for an interesting and adult (in the best sense of the word) read. If you want an intelligent romance that is still full of suspense, sexy and heart-warming, this is it!

I never read another Viking romance half as good as this & like another reviewer I've read this more than once. Read the first review for story details.

Edin's Embrace by Nadine Crenshaw is a very sensual Viking story. Thoryn Kirkynson is a Viking jarl who has travelled from afar to raid and pillage. He invades a manor home called Fair Hope on the morning of a wedding between Edin and her childhood sweetheart. Edin is a renowed beauty and hears the horrible noises as the Norse invaders forcefully enter her home. She is desperate to hide, to save herself but knows there is no place she can run to for safety. She knows the Vikings will find her. Thoryn enters her bedroom and sees her standing there. Her beauty holds him spellbound. Edin is terrified of Thoryn yet is strangely fascinated by his powerful, fierce presence. He takes her captive bringing her back to Norway to sell her on the slave markets. Yet, Edin's beauty and gentleness soon win over Thoryn's ice encased heart. She effortlessly arouses within him a fierce desire. A desire he cannot resist even with his iron will. Consumned with lust, he claims her for his own. Not brutally as she had feared but with gentle patience. Edin's fear soon becomes replaced with forbidden desire for this Viking who has seized her. Yet danger awaits the lovers. An unknown enemy is awaiting the precise moment in which to strike. An enemy whose cunning and murderous intent is well concealed from all. Edin's Embrace is a thoroughly enjoyable, very HOT lovestory. Thoryn is your typical Viking. He is powerful, ruthless and so ready to kill. Yet he loses that fierceness and becomes a slave to the one woman he had vowed to resist. He willingly loses himself in Edin's Embrace.

I still love to read this one over and over. The characters still come alive everytime I read it.