Princess of Elm

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Honor is his duty. She is his undoing.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Astrid Olafsson will never marry anyone other than a fellow Norseman. To do so would be to abandon her heritage and her family's legacy. So logically she does everything in her power to halt her brother's betrothal to a woman foisted upon him by one of the most powerful kings in their new homeland. If he marries the king's choice of bride he may as well admit to being the man's puppet.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As a leader of the elite Fianna warriors Cormac O'Conor takes his responsibilities to king and kingdom more seriously than most. When the meddlesome Astrid interferes with his mission of securing a betrothal for his king's daughter Cormac's dislike of Astrid only grows. In an effort to get her to stop interfering with her brother's betrothal Cormac handily changes the family's focus to her own nuptials.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With little recourse remaining Astrid forms a tense alliance with the irritating warrior: he will win the absurd tournament for her hand that her brother devised and she will convince her brother to agree to marry the king's daughter. Neither of them imagined that the tournament wouldn't just test their skills-it would test their hearts as well.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Join Cormac and Astrid for a Yule tournament Viking-style in an enemies-to-lovers tale of passion and courage.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>Tropes/Themes:</u></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Enemies to lovers</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Viking heroine / Norse legacy</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Warrior hero</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Forced alliance</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Marriage tournament</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Cultural clash romance (Norse vs Gaelic)</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Strong defiant heroine</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Medieval Yule setting</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Pride and duty conflict</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ She vows never to marry... until him</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Alpha hero with a code of honor</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Fiery banter / verbal sparring</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>✅ Heart vs duty dilemma</span></p>