Raven Oath

A father's death. A hidden oath. A kingdom waiting across the sea.In the year 865, Eirik expects to inherit little more than his family's farm in northern Jutland. But after his father Hakon dies, Eirik discovers that the man he thought he knew left behind more than a sword and a name.There is an English coin. A carved bone raven. And traces of an oath made years ago between three men — a Dane, a Norseman, and an Englishman.Searching for answers, Eirik crosses the North Sea with his closest friend, Torsten, and is swept into the great Viking invasion of England. From East Anglia to the walls of York, he encounters war, divided kingdoms, unexpected loyalties, and people who remember his father very differently from the man Eirik knew at home.Among them are Ælfgifu, an Englishwoman who refuses to see the invaders as heroes, and Osric, a man whose connection to Hakon threatens everything Eirik believes about his inheritance.As the meaning of the raven begins to emerge, Eirik discovers that the most dangerous inheritance is not land, silver, or a sword.It is a promise.And some promises can decide who controls the roads, rivers, and kingdoms of England.The Raven Oath is the first book in an epic historical fiction trilogy set against the Viking invasions of ninth-century England — a story of war, family, divided loyalties, forbidden bonds, and the question of what truly makes a land home: blood, soil, or the people who live upon it.