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A historical adventure novella, introducing the Valkyrie Series by international award-winning author and ex-champion sailor, Karen Perkins. Gabriella Berryngton is an unhappy and oppressed fourteen-year-old girl living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1683. She dreams of escaping her bitter, ambitious stepfather and sailing off into the unknown. Her dreams come true when her stepfather sells her into marriage. Aboard the Freyja, she is hopeful that her new life in the Dutch West Indies will be an improvement - a hope that dies when she is given a slave, Klara, and a whip. She discovers that her soon-to-be father-in-law is a ruthless slave trader in league with pirates, and her fiancé is cold, unfriendly and disinterested in Gabriella. She is little more than a vessel to provide the next generation of van Eckens. Largely ignored and desperately unhappy, she and Klara develop a friendship which makes life bearable - at first. Once married, Gabriella's life takes a turn for the worse and she descends into a world of horror and abuse until tensions finally explode. Life will never be the same and she has no choice but to take fate into her own hands.

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Praise for The Valkyrie Series: Epic pirate adventure - USA Today Bestselling Author Claire C Riley Wonderful book by Karen Perkins - Kathy I'm impressed with the author's knowledge, and at her ability to combine her love of sailing with a skillful tale - Author Janice G Ross Some might say that it's a Bernard Cornwell type tale of adventure on the high seas, but it is much more than that - The Bard Non-stop adventure with plausible characters, historical content, and situations that any seafaring person recognize - George R A must read for anyone who loves stories of high adventure, privateers, and romance on the open seas! - Author Debbie McClure Full of action and just the right amount of romance. Anyone wanting fast paced action and sea battles should read this, you won't regret it! - Chris Praise for The Valkyrie Series: Epic pirate adventure - USA Today Bestselling Author Claire C Riley Wonderful book by Karen Perkins - Kathy I'm impressed with the author's knowledge, and at her ability to combine her love of sailing with a skillful tale - Author Janice G Ross Some might say that it's a Bernard Cornwell type tale of adventure on the high seas, but it is much more than that - The Bard Non-stop adventure with plausible characters, historical content, and situations that any seafaring person recognize - George R A must read for anyone who loves stories of high adventure, privateers, and romance on the open seas! - Author Debbie McClure Full of action and just the right amount of romance. Anyone wanting fast paced action and sea battles should read this, you won't regret it! - Chris

Praise for The Valkyrie Series: Epic pirate adventure - USA Today Bestselling Author Claire C Riley Wonderful book by Karen Perkins - Kathy I'm impressed with the author's knowledge, and at her ability to combine her love of sailing with a skillful tale - Author Janice G Ross Some might say that it's a Bernard Cornwell type tale of adventure on the high seas, but it is much more than that - The Bard Non-stop adventure with plausible characters, historical content, and situations that any seafaring person recognize - George R A must read for anyone who loves stories of high adventure, privateers, and romance on the open seas! - Author Debbie McClure Full of action and just the right amount of romance. Anyone wanting fast paced action and sea battles should read this, you won't regret it! - Chris

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Karen Perkins is the author of the Yorkshire Ghost Stories, the Pendle Witch Short Stories and the Valkyrie Series of historical nautical fiction. Her fiction has appeared at the top of bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic, including the top 21 in the UK Kindle Store in 2018. Her first Yorkshire Ghost Story - THE HAUNTING OF THORES-CROSS - won the Silver Medal for European Fiction in the prestigious 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards in New York, whilst her Valkyrie novel, DEAD RECKONING, was long-listed in the 2011 MSLEXIA novel competition. Originally a financial advisor, a sailing injury left Karen with a chronic pain condition (although she did take the European ladies title despite the injury!). Writing has given her a new lease of - and purpose to - life, and she is currently working on a sequel to Parliament of Rooks: Haunting Brontë Country, as well as the next Pendle Witch story.

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