
Pages
309
Rating
3.86
Year
2018
Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal; she fights to survive—until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield: her brother fighting with the enemy, the brother she watched die five years earlier.
Faced with her brother's betrayal, Eelyn is captured and must survive the winter in the mountains with the Riki, in a village where every neighbor is an enemy and every battle scar could be one she delivered. When the Riki village is raided by a ruthless clan thought to be a legend, Eelyn becomes even more desperate to return to her beloved family.
She has no choice but to trust Fiske, her brother's friend, who sees her as a threat. Together they must unite the clans to fight, or risk being slaughtered one by one. Driven by love for her clan and a growing love for Fiske, Eelyn must confront her own definition of loyalty and family while daring to put her faith in the people she's spent her life hating.
A 2018 Most Anticipated Young Adult book that is part Wonder Woman, part Vikings—and all heart.