Mounted bear heads with ominous fangs lined the walls. Much like the bears these mortals revered. Though they’d seized a bloody victory today-from the cliffs above the field, she’d observed their clash against an army of vampires-all the many warriors here seemed to be simmering, snarling even. Yet none within this battlefront encampment laughed no jaunty music could be heard. The hood was deep, falling far over her face.īy the light of the fire pits smoking up to the thatched roof, she glimpsed kissing, fondling, and some acts her young mind couldn’t yet attach names to. She rechecked her cloak with gloved hands. Luckily Regin’s disguise would conceal her expression-and her glow. “So this is debauchery,” Reginleit murmured as two guards led her into the mead hall of the notorious warlord Aidan the Fierce.Īt twelve years of age, and newly quit of the paradise of Valhalla, Regin was certainly getting an eyeful.Īs she and the guards wound through the crowd of hundreds of berserkers, she gaped at drunken warriors sparring in naught but loincloths while half-clad whores served ale, trenchers of meat, and. It begins, as many legends do, with a destined meeting-this one between an immortal girl who would never know death and a jaded mortal man who lived only to kill. Hark! Hear this tale, the legend of Aidan the Fierce and Reginleit the Radiant One, a pair of lovers both bound and cursed by fate. To save herself from Declan’s torments, will Regin rekindle memories of the passion they once shared-even if it means once again losing the only man she could ever love? Read an Excerpt Yet every reincarnation comes with a price, for Aidan is doomed to die when he remembers his past. To sate a desire more powerful than death. But Declan takes her captive, intending retribution against all immortals, unaware that he belongs to their world. When Regin encounters Declan Chase, a brutal Celtic soldier, she recognizes her proud warlord reincarnated. Murdered before he could wed Regin the Radiant, warlord Aidan the Fierce seeks his beloved through eternity, reborn again and again into new identities, yet with no memory of his past lives-only an endless yearning. From #1 New York Times bestseller Kresley Cole comes this gripping tale of a battle-maddenend warrior driven by revenge and the Valkyrie temptress who haunts his dreams.

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