Valkyrie love never comes easy.
Brenna left Asgard with a curse on her name and a broken heart.
A Valkyrie now free and independent, for millennia her life had been great. Just great.
Then a bleeding Elf knocks at her door holding a baby.
Alexander Reed left the Marines and lost the wheel of his life.
A soldier without a worthy fight, he became everything he despised.
Until he ends up in the wrong backyard at the wrong time.
Fljóða, Queen of the Light Elves and last of her lineage, is an infant with a death sentence on her head.
Hunted by the Night Elves, her survival brings Brenna and Reed together for the ultimate mission: take the little Queen to safety in the Vanaheim Realm, deep in the Roots of Yggdrasil.
Not simple, but straightforward.
Or so it seemed.
Between flaming giants, demons, and an army of Half Breed determined to kill the Queen and conquer all the Elvin Realms, Brenna and Reed will have to face their inner monsters.
Monsters appearing in the form of feelings neither want but cannot control.
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Excerpt
Reed rested his elbows on his knees, observed his scarred hands before zeroing his quiet, blue-green eyes to her. “What am I doing here, Brenna?”
“She saw you in a vision.”
“Mae?”
“Yes. Elves have that ability. She saw you and me in Vanaheim, cheering for victory.”
“So, I’m destined for something? Because visions and destiny can kiss my – you know what. I’m done having people making choices for me.” Soft, slow, his words held iron and steel, an unbreakable will. “I choose for me.”
Brenna chuckled. “You can relax, Alexander Reed. Visions are not what’s necessarily going to happen. It’s not a prophecy. They are one of the millions of possibilities. If you decide to come, if you survive the journey to the Vanaheim, if we do everything that specific vision requires, then there’s a chance for us to end up becoming the vision.”
“Better.” Then he frowned. “What do you mean, if I survive? What about you?” He stopped. “Wait a second, what are you?”
Brenna could be selling him some crap, or at least try to. What would the point in doing as much be? This man, a stranger, was way in already, she might as well come clean. “I’m of the Aesir people.”
“Why is the name familiar?”
“Because the realm I come from is Asgard.”
She saw the moment where realization dawned on him. Very few knew about Vanaheim, or Muspelheim, the land of the fire giants. Many, many people thought they knew about Asgard–thank you, Hollywood. His eyes grew huge, and he ran a hand over his messy short hair. “Shit.”
Because there was something deeply comic in the way he took that news after all he’d learned, she tilted her head and dealt the final blow. “I’m a Valkyrie.”
“Shut the fuck up.”
Brenna burst into laughter. “I will not,” she said when she could speak again.
He kept looking at her, up and down, like she came from another planet. Well, okay. She did. But so did Maeraggyth, and he didn’t get a seizure for it.
“You are a goddess,” he finally said.
“No, I’m not. We served Odin and Freyja, who are Gods, but we were not goddesses ourselves. Strictly talking.” Brenna shook off the uncomfortable feeling her past always gave her and readdressed the topic. “Reed, is it? No Alexander, no Alex. Sandy?”
“Reed.”
“Well, Reed, nice to meet you and welcome into the mess that’s Yggdrasil. Are you hungry?”
“I am.”
Without a second thought or hesitation, Brenna headed to the door. “Then come,” she told him. “We’ll eat and talk more later.”
Guest Post
How Valkyrie Love came to be
Quick answer, because of NaNo.
You know, the November writing challenge, where you must write 50,000 words by the end of the month.
Of course, I didn’t make it, but when the 30 rang, I found myself with a story that was almost complete.
And oh, what a fun I had in the process…. but that’s a story for another blog.
Here today, I’ll give you the long answer.
It ran the year 2018, my son had started kindergarten, and I was figuring out what I wanted to do with my life – other than writing, that is. I became a substitute teacher, had a blast, and kind of moved the story aside.
2019 hit.
Then 2020 followed.
I don’t think I need to say much more about it, except that I had my little girl (she’s NOT a pandemic baby, btw. She was well on her way when this disaster started).
Between baby, pandemic, homeschooling my first grader, I really had no time nor inclination to get to any story.
Time marched on, my son went back to school, my daughter was good enough for me to have a few minutes a day for me.
Still not enough to work on a book, though.
I wouldn’t be as focused, and releasing a full story is all about focus, and time.
But one day, Amazon said something about opening a new platform for serialized stories.
I frowned.
I thought.
I scratched my head.
Because I could do it.
I could absolutely publish a bit of my story once a week. I had enough writing done, my editor was on board, and I could publish episodes while finishing the story.
Valkyrie Love was born.
There are zero readers on Vella, mind you.
And Valkyrie Love is not written for that format. It’s always been a book, one I published chapter by chapter, not a serial.
But working on Vella gave me focus, it gave me a challenge I could face, and it gave me enough money from bonuses that I could be happy with.
Will I publish more on Vella?
Maybe.
My daughter will start a very low-key childcare routine coming August, and I’ll go back to subbing. Time will still not be aplenty.
Surely not enough to embark in a story I have to start from scratches.
I do have a couple of stories that are 80% written, though.
So, the answer is, possibly. I just might!
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bum and country music addicted, Viviana lives in a small Floridian
town with her die-hard fans and personal cheer squad: her husband,
her son, and her daughter. She spends her days between typing on her
beloved keyboard, playing in the pool with her babies, and eating
whatever her husband puts on her plate (the guy is that good, and she
really loves eating). Besides beaching, she enjoys long walks,
horse-riding, hiking, and pretty much whatever she can do outside
with her family.
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