Taking a young Christian hostage to be his guide, Grimnir embarks on a journey that takes him from the hinterlands of Denmark, where the wisdom of the ancient dwarves has given way to madness, to the war-torn heart of southern England, where the spirits of the land make violence on one another. The Old Ways are dying, and their followers retreating into the shadows even still, Grimnir’s vengeance cannot be denied. He is Grimnir, and he is the last of his kind–the last in a long line of monsters who have plagued humanity since the Elder Days.ĭrawn from his lair by a thirst for vengeance against the Dane who slew his brother, Grimnir emerges into a world that’s changed. He is Corpse-maker and Life-quencher, the Bringer of Night, the Son of the Wolf and Brother of the Serpent. To the Danes, he is skraelingr to the English, he is orcneas to the Irish, he is fomoraig.

The Song of the Ash Tree series by T L Greylock Confused and betrayed, Ran is forced to flee his homeland, vowing to reclaim what he has lost, even if it kills him.įacing an unknown future, and battling forces both familiar and foreign, can Lidan and Ran overcome the odds threatening to drag them into inescapable darkness? When his home is threatened by the aggressive Woaden Empire, Ran becomes his city’s saviour, but powers within him are revealed by the enemy and he is condemned to death. Ranoth Olseta wants nothing more than to be a worthy successor to his father’s throne. Before she has time to consider the threat of a brother, a bloody swathe is cut through the heart of the clan and Lidan must fight, not only to prove her worth, but simply to survive. But caught between her warring parents, Lidan’s world begins to unravel when another of her father’s wives falls pregnant.

Lidan Tolak is the fiercest of her father’s daughters more than capable of one day leading her clan.

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