I've heard about you dirty Christians, mortifying your flesh beneath your robes until it rots-using your vows of poverty to excuse yourselves for sleeping in flea-ridden filth. You can look like a great louse-ridden thug again soon enough."įen's brows shot up to the place where his fringe had once been.
"(…)And as for your hair, I gave it to the tanner to stuff saddlebags." That wasn't true, but the look on Fen's face was worth the price of the lie. And since you sound like a sheep giving birth when you say mine, you'd better call me Cai." You cannot pronounce it, and the sound you make pains me." "And while we are discussing names-do me a kindness and stop trying to call me Fenrir. Brother Caius is not only a monk but also the monastery's physician, and he feels obligated to tend to Fen's wounds and is nursing him back to health. During said raid Fen had been severely wounded and he had been left behind by his other 'brothers'. …and Fenrir a proud Viking warrior and a prince of the Torleik Danes who came to Fara for a raid. Cai was an uncertain convert to the new faith, but he could feel that much, sense the rightness of the ancient name the tidal island bore, a name like the yearning cry of a bird. Our two main protagonists are Caius, the eldest son of a chieftain and Roman descendent, who had walked away from a rich inheritance of land and men to become a monk… Warning: contains battles, bloodshed, explicit M/M sex, and the proper Latin term for what lies beneath those cassocks.ģ.5 stars.****Review completed June 16, 2013īrothers of the Wild North Sea is set in the year 687 Christian Era, in Britannia, northeast coast. Yet old loyalties call Fen back to his tribe and a relentless quest to find the ancient secret of Fara-a powerful talisman that could render the Vikings indestructible, and tear the two lovers’ bonds beyond healing. And Cai, who had thought he would never love again, feels the stirring of a profound new attraction. But as time passes, Cai’s persistent goodness touches his heart. But instead of reaching for a weapon, Cai finds himself defying his abbot’s orders and using his healing skills to save Fen’s life.Īt first, Fen repays Cai’s kindness by attacking every Christian within reach.
When Leof is killed during a Viking raid, Cai’s grieving heart thirsts for vengeance-and he has his chance with Fenrir, a wounded young Viking warrior left for dead. Heat soothed only in the arms of his sweet-natured friend and lover, Leof. He loves his life of learning as a monk in the far-flung stronghold of Fara, but the hot warrior blood of his chieftain father flows in his veins. His deadliest enemy will become his heart’s desire.Ĭaius doesn’t feel like much of a Christian.
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