Introduction

With the onset of spring in Sudrland, alliances of love and loyalty have shifted and settled. Eirik resides with his wife, Asta, at Cairnby Manor, but keeps his consort, Alisondream—traveler from the twentieth century—tucked away at a nearby cottar's cottage. While Asta understands her husband's relationship with Alison, Eirik's brother, Sigmus, accuses Alison of witchery. And despite his own betrothal, Sigmus not so secretly covets and pursues Asta.

Complications

Circumstances are further complicated when matriarch Britna proposes that her sons return her skraeling lover to his desert home—the surprising condition, that she goes too. As sails are set for another voyage, betrayal and desire become undercurrents aboard the ships, and when seas turn stormy, the arduous journey threatens to be their last great adventure.