Sometimes the right love

comes at the wrong time.

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Time traveler Sarah Jourdain falls in love

with doomed English king Harold Godwinson

on the eve of the Norman conquest, and faces an impossible choice between saving

the man she loves or letting history

take its necessary course.

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Sarah and five time-travel companions are arrested and taken to London in April, 1066, where they are swept up in the chaotic showdown between Viking, Norman, and English warlords for control of the English throne.

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While traveling with England's King Harold, Sarah develops a deep appreciation for the culture and people, and the feelings are reciprocated when she makes new friends and wins their respect. And she falls in love with the charismatic and courageous King Harold, despite knowing he will soon be killed at the Battle of Hastings, when England will fall to William the Conqueror.

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She desperately wants to save him, but telling him how to win at Hastings would change the arc of history and impact the fate of billions of people not yet born. And yet how can she abandon him to an unjust and violent death? Her friend here have cared for and protected her, and now she will just let them all die? Maybe fate brought her here to be more than a bystander.   

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Set in England, Normandy, and Viking Norway, When Heavens Blaze captures the epic scale of 1066, when the Dark Ages gave way to the modern world, not with a whimper but a final clash of civilizations. Filled with lush, historically accurate settings and characters ripped from the pages of history books, When Heavens Blaze is a unique novel at the intersection of sci-fi and historical fiction.

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