Böcker av Melinda R. Cordell

Kay Bachmann leaps into her freshman year of college, eager to start fresh and be the girl she's always wanted to be. She meets Carter, who falls for her like a skydiver with a busted parachute. He sweeps her away in a whirlwind romance, and before Kay can think straight, they're going on dates. But when Kay discovers a family secret, she starts looking at the relationship in a whole new light. And it's not pretty.Then she meets her old friend Wyatt again - who she's loved desperately for so long. Kay tries to break free of Carter, but he raises the emotional ante and attempts suicide right in front of her. That act pulls her right back to his side.Kay knows she cannot stay with Carter. She knows that his next attempt may be fatal. But she wants, above all, to live her life on her own terms - not on somebody else's.

Five shiploads of Vikings against one.This isn't her first battle with such steep odds, but this is Dyrfinna's first as commander -- and she doesn't want to see her crew be killed off by a much greater foe before they get a chance to revenge their friend Thora.But some of these foes are called the Child-Killers, led by the bloody-minded Nauma, who glories in dealing pain and death. Dyrfinna and her crew manage to escape to an island in order to better defend themselves as their ship goes up in flames behind them.Here they make their final stand, surrounded by the enemy. If the rest of the Queen's fleet doesn't find them, and soon, Dyrfinna's crew is going to die here. She's doing everything in her power to keep them all alive so she can revenge Thora and bring everybody home -- but on this haunted island, the past keeps coming alive, and the dead will not rest. Even worse, Dyrfinna discovers that, if her crew dies, these child-killers plan to travel on to Skala to slaughter their loved ones ... including Dyrfinna's mother and little sister, who she swore to protect.Set in a new, Norse-inspired world, and packed with magic, adventure, and dragons, A BLAZE OF VALKYRIES is the book #2 in an epic new fantasy saga from Melinda R. Cordell.