The Tribute Bride

A flood ruins King Alles kingdom. His crops are destroyed and he does not have the necessary grain to pay his yearly tribute to neighbouring war-lord Aethelfrid. Instead he offers him his daughter Acha who aged 16 must become a peace-weaver bride to the most brutal and feared warrior in the land. But will she be accepted? Can she produce an heir? What will happen to the lines of inheritance in both her fathers kingdom and her new husbands? Acha finds herself alone distrusted and constantly in danger but even she could not have imagined the deadly consequences her fathers plan. This is a story of resilience and survival courage love and loyalty in one of historys bloodiest eras and the founding of the vast Anglo-Saxon kingdom that came to be known as Northumbria.