Framed weaver claimed as hearth-wife must prove innocence within a year.
In Viking Iceland, orphan weaver Runa witnesses the chieftain's wife murder her only friend, Ingrid, then frames Runa for the drowning. Sentenced to death by Ingrid's husband, the warrior Vidar, Runa is spared at the final moment when he claims her as his hearth-wife instead. The arrangement carries a brutal condition: she must bear him a son within a year or face execution. While a killer stalks the settlement and an unexplained power stirs within her, Runa works to uncover the truth behind Ingrid's death. As she investigates, she finds herself drawn to the gentle man she was accused of widowing, complicating her desperate fight for survival.
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Viking Iceland settlement
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hearth-wife obligation
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framed murder accusation
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