My husband introduced me to Adelle and hoped that we would become friends. Sitting across from her that first night, I could not have imagined the intensity with which we would.
INCLUDES TITLE ILLUSTRATION Dr Clare Keller has a certain way with the dead. She knows their secrets. Useful insight for a Medical Examiner who is no stranger to violent death. But Clare fails to heed a dire warning from beyond. A mistake with humiliating consequences.
Astrid is only one of many wives on the Norse shore who are waiting for the longships to return from their regular spring expedition. She looks forward to her husband Thorvald's return, as much for the passion of his lovemaking as for the bounty the men return with. But as summer becomes winter, Astrid comes to fear that her husband may already have been called to Valhalla and that she has become a widow.