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    In the bloody aftermath of Hastings, Ser Jude Bellingham stops his own men from committing an atrocity against the camp's only prisoner — a captured Norse prince the king has ordered kept alive and untouched. It costs him everything he thought he wanted: his men's respect, his king's favor, and soon his own safety, as he flees into the English countryside with the wounded prince at his side.

    What starts as duty becomes something else entirely. Jude and Erling cross a country that wants them both dead — Erling for his value as a hostage, Jude for the crime of setting him free — and somewhere between a cover story and a shared bed, what they're pretending to be stops being pretend.

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