Dawn of The North - A Viking Fantasy
Wood Sondra N.
Publisher: Sondra N. Wood
Summary
When the sea freezes solid overnight in the height of spring, shipwright's daughter Runa Thorirsdottir knows her island home has weeks before starvation claims them all. The unnatural ice has trapped every vessel, cut off all trade, and brought whispers of an ancient evil stirring at the boundary between worlds.Desperate to save her people, Runa ventures north across the frozen strait to find the blight's source—the same journey that killed her father three years ago. She assembles an unlikely crew: a scarred veteran haunted by guilt, a seeress who's seen her own death, a young warrior desperate to prove himself, and a boy who's lost everything to the freeze.Together they cross a landscape where reality fractures, the dead walk, and an ancient entity of primordial cold pushes relentlessly toward their world. At the frozen heart of the blight stands Halvard the Frost-Touched—once a legendary explorer, now a prophet possessed by something older than memory. He believes the freeze is divine purification, and he'll sacrifice anyone to complete the transformation. But when Runa finally confronts him, she discovers a truth that changes everythingIn a world where boundaries matter and ignoring them leads to destruction, Runa must choose between the sacrifice everyone expects and a third path no one has considered.
