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The Defiant Heart by Anita Gordon

Ailinn is taken in a viking raid on her Irish home and her captor intends to take her to Byzantium to sell her as a concubine. On their way the vikings stop at Hedeby, the centre of Danish trade, where Lyting Atlison sees Ailinn and decides to protect and rescue her. He joins the viking band on the trip to Byzantium where he is also pledged to investigate a plot to kill the boy emperor.


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story
Action/suspense subplot? Yes
Action:

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Age/status: - 20's-30's
Sex makes him
Unusual characteristics?

Main Female Character
Age/status: - a teen
Unusual characteristics:

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - Scandinavia - Turkey
Water? Yes
Water: - warship
Misc setting - castle

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths
What % of story is romance related? - 80%
How explicit is the sex? - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - actual description of sex - Boob talk - Vagia talk - Weiner talk
Focus of story - equally on him and her
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 1-2 sex acts
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