VIKING

A TYRANT RISES. A HANDFUL STAND AGAINST HIM.A LOST CHILD COULD BIND THEM ALL...OR BREAK THEM.   ICELAND 985 A.D. Struggling back from the unexplored western oceans, Erik and Thio possess a mysterious sea chest whose contents could change Iceland’s destiny. They must get it to Mani the Lawspeaker-but the corrupt chieftain Naldrum, plotting to declare himself king, has sent his Land Guard riders in search of Erik’s ship and its secrets. As Erik and Thio evade the Guards, Naldrum’s beautiful, blood-obsessed daughter Ankya hunts another quarry: the stolen child of healer Aldís and holmgang-hero Kel. In a feverish race from the fjords of Iceland to a distant Saxon port, none of them realizes that the missing waif may hold the key to Naldrum’s destruction.  Amidst the valleys and volcanoes of the land of the midnight sun, this brilliant fourth novel of the Norse Adventure Series weaves love, madness, loyalty, and greed into spellbinding plot twists with a provocative, cataclysmic finale. Get THE RECKONING today: how does one choose when the odds are dire, and every outcome foretells disaster?