The Plague of God (Sword Shatterers #1)

Timothée de St. Clere, a down-at-the heels baron in present-day Germany, is forced to sell his family property. Both emotionally and financially ruined, he succumbs to the whispered promise of a fabled treasure and begins a dangerous quest while, pursued and opposed at every turn by a maniacal politician, realizing that friendship and love are his only lifelines.

Centuries earlier, Bera Haraldsdatter, a shieldmaiden to Godfrid the Dane, realizes the terrible mistake she made in joining the merciless warlord who smeared a trail of blood from the rocky shores of the North to the dark forests of Eastern Francia. Enlivened by the desire for peace and by a maternal passion, she decides to protect the lives of three children and finds herself alone, defying the entire Viking army.