Viking women fight for their legal rights!
Blonde, teenage Havi lives on her parent's goat ranch. When a visiting dignitary arrives, seeking the men and dragonships of her village to join his viking fleet, her clan chief disdains his offer. However, as the aged dignitary's wife had recently died, her clan chief agrees to the unfavorable terms ... if he will marry a woman of his clan. Shrugging, the aged dignitary looks across the village at a group of teenage girls and chooses the tallest blonde.
Havi tries to refuse, only to learn that women didn't have the right to refuse a marriage. Forced to wed the elderly stranger, Havi endures a horrific wedding night ... and later discovers that her new, aged husband rules the largest clan in Sweden.
Stolen from her only home, and sailed far away, Havi arrives at the first city she's ever seen. Trapped in unfamiliar surroundings, knowing nothing of politics, Havi becomes a pawn manipulated by all around her. Finally exploding angrily, Havi assumes command of herself, her station, and determines to learn the Den Skaance Lov, the law code of Sweden, and give women the legal rights that she was unjustly denied. Yet learning law is forbidden to women, and the only man willing to teach her is a pitiful captive: her husband's most-hated enemy.