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Dear Mrs. Styles,
I trust that placing “Viking” in the title has got this one selling well in the UK. Isn’t that one of the words that your mother-in-law’s friend always looks for when deciding which new books to buy? Too bad for us US buyers that Taken by the Viking hasn’t been released here but it can be purchased in Canada. Go Amazon.ca! I’ll be frank and admit that when you emailed me that your next offering would be a Viking romance, I kinda cringed. I still have memories of reading “Fires of Winter” by Johanna Lindsey back in the early eighties (and not being bothered much by it then but my, how my tastes have changed). Viking raid, rape, rinse, repeat. Heroine gets treated like crap, hero goes all alpha every 4 pages and I’m supposed to believe in true love when it’s all over. Thanks, but I’ll pass on any more of that. Thank goodness there’s not a bit of the what I dreaded to find in your book.
Since we don’t know which Vikings actually carried out the horrific raid on the Priory at Lindesfarne in 793, I have …
I first read The Winter Serpent years ago in the late 70s and lost my copy during a move. I thought vaguely about getting another but when I checked prices of OOP ones, I was shocked at the amounts. So when this was re-released in trade paperback a few years ago, I began to look for another copy. I will warn anyone wanting to read it, that this edition has a few errors in the typesetting but it’s nothing major. 
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