Caught in the turmoil between Irish leaders and Vikings in eleventh-century Ireland, Princess Maire mac Domnaill desires freedom—the freedom to write the stories and history of her people and the fae folk, rather than being locked in an unhappy political marriage like her mother. When her hand is promised to the brutish son of Brian Boru, the king of Southern Ireland, to unite the north and the south in the coming war, she has no choice but to flee.Black Thorfinn is a warrior of the...