Truth: A Valkyrie Saga Book 3

Valkyrie Saga Books 1-3 Summary

A/N: I was asked by one of my readers to put together a summary of what has happened in the first three books of the Valkyrie Saga books so that they could make sure they remembered the gist of the story before reading the fourth book. I think this is a great idea and put this together for you. Please note that there is only so much detail that I can add in a 5,000-word summary about over 350,000-word book series. I am also a very emotional writer and aim to explore and illustrate many of the emotions that my characters feel and that part is absent in this summary. Here I just describe the main events. To really relive Ray's complete story, I encourage you to reread books 1-3 as I will be only posting updates once a week. So you have time.

The Valkyrie Saga is a coming-of-age story of a young female Valkyrie named Ray. Her full name is Delia Ray Olsen but only people that don't know her very well call her Delia. Ray was raised by her father, also a Valkyrie, away from Valkyrie society. In fact, he had gone out of his way to ensure that he and Ray never came across any other Valkyries during her childhood, so Ray has no idea how Valkyrie society works. And even though her father died four years ago, Ray continued to hide away from the supernatural community. She did this because her father was not a good person and had been an even worse father. Valkyries are all born with special Gifts that make them unique. The most common Gift that almost every Valkyrie has is called Weapons and is the ability to conjure a specific set and number of weapons that all bear that Valkyrie's unique markings. Another common Gift is the ability to create a personal impenetrable Shield that will surround the Valkyrie. An interesting quirk about the Shield is that it will shock any other Valkyrie that tries to touch it, feeding power from the person touching it to the Valkyrie wielding the Shield. Most Valkyries of this day and age only have two Gifts. But the more elite and royal Valkyries have three. Because of this, there is a strong class system in place within the Valkyrie society.

Well long story short, Ray's father was a man named Samuel Olsen who had three Gifts, Weapons, Compulsion, and Telepathy. Ray's father was also a sadistic criminal that never viewed Ray as a living breathing person with her own set of feelings and needs. Instead, he ubiquitously used his Compulsion Gift to force Ray to his bidding, which included fighting to the death in supernatural child underground fight clubs. So when Samuel was murdered when Ray was thirteen and she was placed in the human foster system in California, Ray decided she had had enough of the supernatural world and did her best to integrate into the human one. She was particularly good at this because one of Ray's Gifts is called Cloaking and gives her the ability to turn herself invisible. More than that, she can even step into a different plane of existence that she calls the void, where she can see and hear everything that happens in the real world, but cannot interact with it. Yup, that's right, she will just ghost through anything or anyone within the physical plane of existence when she is sealed in the void.

So for years, Ray used the void to remain unnoticed by both humans and the supernatural. However, her protective streak meant that she got into some fights to defend her foster brothers and sisters. This led to her bouncing from foster home to foster home and leaving Ray with one relatively simple goal in life; age out of the foster system, get good grades, and get a scholarship to a community college. By the time Ray turned seventeen she knew that actually living with the foster families wasn't working for her so she struck a deal with her current foster mom. The woman could keep all of the government checks intended for her upkeep as long as she continued to tell the state that Ray was a model foster daughter. Meanwhile, Ray set up camp in an abandoned old bus within a trailer park not too far away from the school. She made this bus her home and eventually even came out of her shell enough to make friends with siblings who lived in the trailer park, Jack and Amy.

Jack is also seventeen and was the underfed, scrawny, boy who showed up to school in dirty clothes and got bullied daily. Ray is a protector at heart and stepped in to make sure no one touched Jack at school. Over time they became friends and would look out for each other in a way that no one else was doing in their lives. The more that Ray hung out with both Jack and Amy the more she started to believe that she would do anything to keep them safe. Eventually, her Valkyrie powers surged and claimed both of them as one of her protected. Meaning that Ray would always feel an instinctual need to keep them protected and could even sense when they were in serious danger.