In a thrilling adventure of brotherhood, warfare, and treachery, Giles
Kristian takes us into ninth-century England, a world of darkness, epic
conflict, and an unforgiving God served by powerful priests. On ships
shaped like dragons, bristling with oars and armor, Jarl Sigurd and his
fierce Norsemen have come in search of riches. And riches they are
promised, by an English ruler who sends Sigurd and his wolves to steal a
holy manuscript from another kingdom.
Osric, an orphan boy, sees beyond the terror of these warriors, and
somehow knows the heathens' tongue. Renamed Raven, rechristened in
blood, he will join them. They are his people. And they will be his
fate.