"Since she was a child Gudrid has been entranced by the wide world beyond the sea stowing
away on Leif Ericson's ship every chance she got...only to be dragged back home and told that a
good Norse girl must protect the home and raise a family. Now a widow at 19 she is all of an
hour into her second marriage when she absentmindedly stabs her new husband in the leg in their
wedding bed. Gudrid flees to Thorfinn and Leif's ship but they have a risky voyage ahead to
fund their ambitions in Vinland. With success (and even survival) uncertain is there room on
the ship for an inexperienced girl just married to the son of a ruthless landlord?"--
