Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/127477 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the Cold Coasts Author: Vilborg Davidsdottir Narrator: Angela Dawe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 51 minutes Release date: May 15, 2012 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: When a fleet of one hundred English ships is caught in a horrible storm off the cold coasts of fifteenth-century Iceland, twenty-five ships are lost. For Ragna, the daughter of a respected family and betrothed to Thorkell, her relationship with one of the seamen washed ashore results in pregnancy. Now barren due to a traumatic childbirth and stigmatized as a fallen woman, she is left with no prospects for marriage when the betrothal is ultimately canceled. A decade later, Ragna becomes a housekeeper to the new English bishop in North Iceland, where passionate and ambitious Thorkell is a priest and steward. They embark on a fervent but doomed love affair as priests cannot marry and Ragna will not be a concubine. Little does Ragna know, her host, the bishop, is instigating the conflict between the English and Nordic settlers to his own gain, with a devastating impact on his housekeeper. As sweeping as it is intimate, On the Cold Coasts is a powerful, enduring story of love and personal sacrifice.