And other storm clouds are gathering: Ætheleflæd≺lfred's daughteris newly married, but by a cruel twist of fate, her very existence now threatens Alfred's kingdom. Uhtred must weigh his oath to the king against the dangerous turning tide of shifting allegiances and deadly power struggles. He wants Uhtred to expel the Viking raiders from London. Their dream is to conquer Wessex, and to do it they need Uhtred's help.Īlfred has other ideas. But then trouble stirs: a dead man has risen, and new Vikings have arrived to occupy the decayed Roman city of London. He has land, a wife, and two children, and a duty given to him by King Alfred to hold the frontier on the Thames. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lordwarrior by instinct, Viking by naturehas finally settled down. The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south.
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