What happens when a valkyrie breaks Valhalla's most sacred law - by choosing a still-living warrior from the battlefield?Tog Torlssen, last man standing of a border doomed patrol, is about to find out.His family's provider since the death of his father, fifteen year-old Tog is tougher and more determined than he looks. And he's plenty smart enough to see through lies and false leaders; he knows when something's going on that nobody is telling. But that won't prepare him for the world of gods, monsters and valkyries that lies ahead when he volunteers for a place on a seemingly routine border patrol.Svana is a daughter of the goddess Freya. A chooser of the slain, a valkyrie. She and her sisters scour the battlefields to find dead heroes for Valhalla's halls. Skinny beardless Tog isn't anyone's typical pick... but then Svana isn't your typical valkyrie.The odds of an untested fifteen year-old escaping a demigoddess and surviving a wilderness odyssey pursued by raiders and worse seem impossible. But Tog's family need him... and that knowledge, together with the survival skills he learned from his lost father, might just be enough to bring him home...
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