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Praise for Viking Unchained
Sandra Hill has truly outdone herself.
Night Owl Romance
Hill goes a-Viking again!... Its a blast!
Romantic Times
Praise for Down and Dirty
Hills fans will be delighted... and readers new to Hill will be charmed by her entertaining style and unique voice. A welcome, poignant, and relevant addition to Hills sexy, hilarious, and clever time-traveling Vikings series.
Booklist (starred review)
Praise for the novels of Sandra Hill
Exciting, unexpectedly erotic, and entertaining... Another winner.
Booklist (starred review)
Wickedly funny, deliciously sexy... Loved it!
New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning
Smart, sexy, laugh-out-loud action, Sandra Hill always delivers.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan
Wildly inventive and laugh-out-loud fabulous... Once again, the talented Sandra Hill proves that a real hero isnt stopped by any obstaclenot even time.
New York Times bestselling author Christina Skye
Hill writes stories that tickle the funny bone and touch the heart. Her books are always fresh, romantic, inventive, and hilarious.
New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs
Some like it hot and hilarious, and Hill delivers both.
Publishers Weekly
Another wonderful story that includes action, adventure, passion, romance, comedy, and even a little time travel.
Romance Junkies
A perfect ten!... A must-read for everyone who loves great romance with heartfelt emotion.
Romance Reviews Today
Only the mind of Sandra Hill could dream up this hilarious and wacky scenario. The Vikings are on the loose once again, and theyre wreaking sexy and sensual fun.
Romantic Times
Feeling down? Need a laugh? This one could be just what the dock whore ordered.
All About Romance
Berkley Sensation Titles by Sandra Hill
ROUGH AND READY
DOWN AND DIRTY
VIKING UNCHAINED
VIKING HEAT
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VIKING HEAT
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This novel is dedicated to book lovers everywhere.
In an age of computers, eReaders, iPods, high-tech video games, BlackBerrys, GPS devices, and telephones that can do everything except bake bread (and maybe that is coming soon), the gurus would have you believe that books are going out of style, that one day they will be relics of the past.
Bah! Humbug!
Thats nothing against eBooks or even reading books online, but is that anything like having an actual book in hand? Curled up in bed, in the tub, in front of a fireplace? The joy of opening to that first page? The excitement of staying up all night because you couldnt put the book down?
So, while I applaud all the modern technology and am thankful that my books are in those formats, I must say, God bless books and the people who read them!
Chapter 1
Testosterone made her do it...
She had no one to blame but herself.
Joy Nelson, a seemingly intelligent woman with a masters degree in psychology, about to start a doctorate program at Yale, had made some dumb choices in her life, mostly because she had spent way too much of her twenty-six years competing with her three older brothers or doing incredibly stupid things after being egged on by the Three Muska-dopes, as shed called them.
But this one beat the cake.
And it broke her heart thinking about why shed done it. Here she was in mud up to her eyeballs on San Clemente Island, one grueling year into her training program to become a female Navy SEAL. And doesnt that fall into the category of What was I thinking?
It all began when she was about twelve years old and well on her way to her eventual five foot ten, towering over all her classmates. What girl in the throes of puberty wants to have boys looking up at her, making tall jokes? Not to mention three older jock brothers, Matt, Jerry, and Tom, who were not shy about their observations, even after they had gone on to be an Air Force pilot, Wall Street hotshot broker, and NFL football player, respectively.
Also, it hadnt helped that she had curly red hair. Bright curly red hair. Think Orphan Annie but not so cute.
I dare you had been a common refrain around their house. And I double-dog dare you had been the worst challenge of all to a little girl trying to keep up with three young Rambos.
I dare you to climb that tree, her oldest brother Matt had challenged her. The one outside the principals office.
The jerks had even taken pictures of that incident and loved to bring them out on the most embarrassing occasions. Her hanging from the limb, Barbie underpants exposed, with Mr. Clemmons yelling up at her.
I dare you to try this hair toner, Jerry had suggested one day. My girlfriend says it will give you gold highlights.
Her hair had turned green. There were photos of that disaster, too.
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