Seventeen-year-old Ailia has vowed to find out if her recurring mare dreams, of what she thinks are glimpses into her previous life, are real. In her dreams, she is married to her soul mate, and an evil Empress named Eiess pursues and kills her.
Lucia, the heir of the Northlandic Kingdom, will be crowned Sun Queen – the Queen responsible for shifting the seasons each solstice. The eve before Lucia’s eighteenth birthday and coronation, Eiess storms the castle, taking Lucia and her Father prisoner. Eiess immediately instigates the prophesied three-year winter before the end of Midgard when she usurps the throne.
One day, and unbeknownst to her – nearly two years later – Ailia wakes up in a glacier cave cold, beaten, and far away from home. She doesn’t remember how she ended up there or even that she was abducted by the ruthless Vikings. When a healer named Soren rescues her, Ailia can’t help but think that she knows him from somewhere, and that they were fated to meet – and destined to fall in love.
And when Ailia, Lucia and Soren discover a shocking secret that intertwines their destinies, one of them betrays the other two – a betrayal that ultimately puts their lives, and the lives of humanity, in which they had sworn to protect, in grave danger.
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Summary
Winter Solstice Winter By E.J. Squires A Viking Blood Saga Book 1 Ailia lives a fairly peaceful life as a peasant girl. She was told that her parents had died of smallpox and she was brought to a childless couple who raised her. Lately things aren't so good. Because of her mare dreams and the feeling that she has lived before, her friends have deserted her. After she's captured by Vikings and wakes up in an ice cave several months later, her life is and never will be the same simple life. Especially after meeting the princess's fiancé, Soren, whom she feels a connection to. The three of them together are all part of a greater plan to destroy the Empress of Darkness. Lucia is the heir to the Northlandic Throne. After her mother dies she prepares to take over. Lucia struggles over many things. Such as hatred for the Christian religion her mother had embraced and hatred for her father. When she finds out there is much more she never knew about, she begins to become a bitter young woman. To top everything off Eiess the Empress of Darkness comes in to take over. Lucia is determined to be the Sun Queen and wishes she were not the Great Sentinor...the person Eiess wants to destroy. This is a long book and the beginning may seem to start out slow but I encourage to stick with it. Once the story took hold it became a page turner, seeing what would happen next. And not always things you wanted to see happen. This is a paranormal but is also based on the on how things were during the time of the Vikings. It takes place in the year 1007. Warning for the faint of heart; there are some gruesome deaths in this book, by the Vikings and others. The story closed one part of their lives but the next part will be continued in the second book, Summer Solstice Summer. **Violence http://justjudysjumbles.blogspot.com/2012/12/paranormal-e-books-by-various-authors.html