Runes and Red Sails
queenmaker, book one
Aelfhild hates attention. She lives in the shadows. She serves the future Queen. And she has, for her life so far, managed to avoid all the backstabbing of the royal court.
But when the assassins come looking for her mistress' head, there's only one choice: run. Swept into a world of longships and bloodthirsty raiders, of sky-splitting storms and heaving seas, of old gods and treachery, Aelfhild has to find her footing—and fast. She’ll tangle with scheming lords and stand alongside stoic shieldmaidens. She’ll raise a mug with drunken warrior-poets and set sail for unknown lands with a crew of restless misfits. It’s going to take all the strength and courage she can muster to keep the true heir to the throne alive long enough to see the crown. And more than a little luck.
This is the story of how Aelfhild learned to step out into the light. This is the story of how she learned to stand and fight.
This is her story.
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Awards for Runes and REd Sails
Kindle book review
2018 Kindle Book Awards
Sci-Fi and Fantasy Category Semi-finalist
Oaths and Old Gods
Queenmaker, Book Two
Aelfhild is blessed. Aelfhild is cursed. Aelfhild can’t decide which is more terrifying. All she knows is that the way her friends stare at her hand makes her increasingly nervous. Bearing the mark of the Gods is no easy thing.
She returns home to a kingdom riven by civil war. Raiders gather along the northern border, eager for plunder. On the southern front, legions assemble and plan conquest. Her people are stuck between, ruled by a King concerned only with his power and lords with schemes of their own. Can Aelfhild use her mysterious new gifts to save the innocent folk of Earnfold from the ravages of war, without having to sacrifice those closest to her? Without losing herself?
Only the Gods know.
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Cover art by Damonza