Vikings Fable

He died with an axe in his chest. Something brought him back. It has been waiting ever since.

Three winters ago, Einar's heart stopped on a battlefield shore. Seven heartbeats of darkness ? and then a voice, cold as the deep ocean, older than the gods, pulling him back into the world with a single purpose he cannot yet name. Now he sails north into a fjord with no name, a crew that trusts him, and a hunger that grows with every mile of black water behind them.

Beyond the mist, the world gets worse.

Harpies. A kraken. Forests of risen dead. Wolves that hunt like armies. Giants locked in wars that predate the age of men. Each one a test. Each one survived. Each one bringing him closer to the mountain at the edge of everything ? the one that breathes, that shakes the earth with every exhale, that has been burning from the inside since before the first fire was kindled.

And at its peak: the last dragon.

Ancient. Alone. Not sleeping ? waiting. For him. For this. For the only man in the world who has stood on the other side of death and chosen to come back.

Fans of Joe Abercrombie's The First Law, Joanne Harris's The Gospel of Loki and Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories will find in Vikings Fable a brutal, mythic journey through the darkest edges of the Norse world ? and a warrior who discovers that what he mistook for a death wish was something far more dangerous.

A reason to have lived.