Author: Kara Storm
Narrator: Nichalia Schwartz
Unabridged: 0 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Published: 08/03/2021
*poetry
My father is a king, my sister is a princess . . . and I am a death maiden.
My heart has been captured by a warrior boy, but a valkyrie has no time for love. Valhalla awaits the delivery of honored dead, and any delay will draw unwanted attention. Attention that will put the boy I love in danger, and my loyalty to Asgard in question.
The threads of fate spin as I struggle to reconcile my role and my love, but the cruelty of the gods may lay waste to the hope in my heart as destiny calls for blood and death.
*includes the poem The Valkyrie and Raven
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