THE YEARS WE CARVED

Archaeologist Freya Lin has spent years studying the warrior buried in Grave 514. Then a rune tears open beneath her hand and drags her into York, 889—hours before shieldmaiden Astrid Ketilsdottir is meant to die. Their paired marks can trade skill, memory and sensation across time, but every borrowed hour burns a year from the future. Hunted by a warlord who wants their magic as a weapon, the women must choose what history will remember, what the grave will conceal, and whether one impossible night together is worth the life it costs.

She Excavated a Viking Warrior’s Bones—Then a Rune Pulled Her Back Twelve Centuries to Save the Woman History Swore Was Dead