Annoure and the Dragon Ships

By: Heidi Skarie

In 794 A.D. Thorstein kidnaps Annoure, a young noble woman, from the coast of England during a Viking raid on St. Paul's Church. When returning to Norway, a storm arises at sea. Rethel, a superstitious warrior, believes the Norse Gods are angry and decides to appease them by throwing a captured monk overboard. Annoure is unable to save the monk and in anger she gives Rethel a shove. He falls into the sea, but is rescued by his brother Ketil. Enraged Rethel comes after Annoure. Thorstein protects her, causing ill will to form between the two men that sparks a feud between them and their families.In Norway, Annoure must adapt to her new life as a slave on Thorstein's family homestead. Eventually, Thorstein comes to love Annoure, but his father is against the marriage since she's a foreigner and Christian. Thorstein can't marry without his father's permission if he stays on the family homestead.The following spring, Thorstein leaves home to go on a trading expedition. He hopes to earn enough money to start a new life with Annoure. While he's gone, Rethel and Ketil come to Thorstein's family homestead and kill his father and brother and kidnapped Annoure who is pregnant. Rethel and Ketil sell Annoure into slavery in a Viking trading settlement. The slave dealer takes her and several other women across the steppes of Asia and sells them to the Arabs.Thorstein comes after Annoure, traveling by boat through the Russian waterways, and eventually rescues her and his son. Annoure and Thorstein travel back home. With his father and brother dead, Thorstein is now the head of the farmstead and free to marry Annoure. Unfortunately, his troubles aren't over because the two feuding families want revenge. At the spring legal assembly Thorstein is forced to fight Ketil in a duel to the death to end the feud.Thorstein wins the duel and the future finally looks promising for him and Annoure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0989336557
• ISBN13: 9780989336550
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Blue Star Visions
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher