Princess Olga. The Bride from the Forest

A girl of noble birth doesn’t choose whom to marry. Elga, niece of the recently deceased Oleg the Wise, was supposed—while still a child—to be among the hostages ensuring peace between two noble families that share power over the nascent Russian realm. But the niece of the Wise is not one to let others twist her around. Contrary to ancient custom, which sent her into the forest before the wedding, to the dwelling of the Prince-Bear, despite the will of the elders she herself takes a decisive step—one that determined her fate and the fate of the land of Rus’. And although Elga’s cousin Uta is devoted to her heart and ready to support her in everything, fate repeatedly throws them together and makes them rivals. And now both of them are in Kyiv, where one of them will become the wife of the young Ingvar and the Grand Princess of Rus’…