SEA QUEEN

Ragnvald Eysteinsson is now king of Sogn, fighting battles for King Harald. He navigates a political landscape that grows more dangerous the higher he rises. His sister Svanhild has found the freedom and adventure she craves at the side of a rebel explorer Solvi Hunthiofsson, though not without a cost. She longs for a home where her quiet son can grow strong, and a place where she can put down roots, even as Solvi's ambition draws him back to Norway's battles and keeps her divided from her brother. The novel is set six years after 'The Half-Drowned King' in the fjords and halls of Viking-Age Scandinavia, a world of violence and prophecy, where honour is challenged by shifting alliances and vengeance is always a threat to peace. An unusual Viking saga with its complex web of rituals, lore and debts of honour, this seafaring epic of Norsemen is an ambitious tale rich in historical detail and can be read without having read the first novel. 444pp, paperback.