Year 936. A women’s monastery in Normandy. A young abbess finds a wounded warrior on the threshold. As she bandages the knight’s wounds, she is horrified to see a talisman—one she knows well—on his chest, reminding her of the past…
Once her name was Gisela. By her father’s will, she was meant to become the wife of the Viking Rollo. The girl’s mother, frightened by the prospect of kinship with a pagan, devises a clever plan: she decides to trick Rollo and, instead of Gisela, pass off a serving girl who looks like her daughter. But fate unexpectedly intervenes in these plans—Gisela ends up in prison, and then escapes from it with the Viking’s daughter, Run a.
At every step, the girls face dangers; enemies chase them relentlessly. And to make it worse, Rollo’s mistress wants, at any cost, to kill her rival…