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Astrid Bjornsdottir died on the battlefield. Freyja brought her back with a price: infiltrate the hall of Erik Bloodaxe, steal the god-forged weapon keeping the dead from rising, and return it to Asgard before the draugr consume the Nine Realms.
Pose as his thrall. Find the weapon. Feel nothing.
For nine weeks she watches. She learns his routines, maps his hall, cultivates invisibility. She tells herself the mission is the mission. She tells herself the quiet moments between them don’t matter. She is lying to herself, and Erik knows it.
He is a cursed jarl doing the slow, difficult work of keeping his people alive while something ancient and patient moves against him from the north. He has kept everyone at a distance for thirty years. He sees her walls. Every wound she carries. The loneliness she has never let anyone see. And he doesn’t look away.
When the truth finally breaks open between them — and the gods demand a new bargain to set it right — Astrid will have to choose: the goddess who owns her second life, or the cursed man who has seen exactly what she is, and is still standing there.
A slow-burn Viking romantasy rooted in authentic Norse tradition. Book One of Oaths of Steel and Shadow.
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