Try's a raider who takes Helena as spoils. She's on the run and also on a mission to turn the electricity on for the drowned world. Lots of sex, voyeurism, tough alpha determined to mess with Helena until she gives up her secrets. The new world isn't pretty with lots of little tyrant kings, zealot procreation priests and raiders.
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After reading some of the reviews I was a little nervous but I have to say that I liked the book. I'm glad I didn't let them stop me from giving it a try. It was nice reading outside of my usual books.
Now I can't wait to see who Wulf ends up with. ( )

This book is not your typical romance novel. In fact there is a lot more narrative and thought process than dialogue. You may even want to put the book down after a few chapters but if you keep at it for a bit, it will take hold of you. 2/3 of the book takes its time establishing the characters and background story but once that's done the story takes off pretty fast and by the end you will want your own raider.

ARC provided in exchange for an honest review. ( )

Wow…this one had me on the edge of my seat and up into the wee hours of the morning. I could not put it down!

At first I thought “Mad Max” and then I thought nope…seafaring raiders…and then… I just kept reading and reading. When I finished and thought about it this morning I thought of the first books I read by John Wyndham and realized I have enjoyed reading about a world destroyed and trying to recover since I read the Wyndham Omnibus years ago.

This first book in a new series has everything I like to find in a novel and introduces potential main characters of future books in a way that I can makes me want to get my hands on them as soon as possible. The men of the Clan are HOT and the women they hang out with are, too. The main characters are strong individuals in their own right and their story intense and interesting.

Tyr and Helena are quite a couple! Tyr is the war chief for his clan of raiders. He is alpha to the max and oh so hot. He captures Helena on one of the raids and takes her back home with him. She has a secret mission and he needs to know what it is. The whole clan is unapologetically hedonistic and the complete opposite of what Helena has grown up believing as a compliant on the mainland.

This story is about trust, dispelling misconceptions, power – the abuse of it versus the wise use of it, family and oh so much more. I loved it!

Thank you to NetGalley and Saint Martin’s Press for the copy of this excellent book to read and review. ( )

Think of Vikings in the future. Yeah!!!
We're talking our future, there's no power or any decent technology left at all, even the weather is messed up just lots of rain and then it's summer. It's a hard life, all ruled by 'Kings'.
Helena and her sister are living on a settlement when they are attacked by Viking raiders and Helena is taken by the Vikings war chief Tyr.
Tyr noticed Helena mostly because of her sassy mouth but also for the tablet she has stuffed in to her back pocket. She has many secrets and Tyr is the warrior to find them out.
It's a hot book with lots of sex and then some more, apparently Vikings don't have much else to do on their time off. But there is a plot line as such, Helena is trying to escape a bad guy and Tyr is hunting one, and the tablet? and it makes the glut of steamy sex not so monotonous (I'm only kidding, those scenes. Phew!!)
All in all, I loved the story. There's plenty of interesting secondary characters, I'd love to see more of these Vikings. Please!!! 5/5 ( )