Skølravn

"To survive amongst the humans, Sefangr, you must act human. The wolf inside you is hungry. Do not feed it."

Pale and wild beneath the mystical lights of the Skølravn, wintery Threndhal is harsh and unforgiving; as are the requirements to feast with your loved ones in the celestial halls of the afterlife, Fjarvndor.

Sefangr, daughter to a murdered blacksmith and a mother she can scarcely remember, is a renowned warrior with a sinister past. Her sheer strength, speed, cunning, ruthlessness and tracking skills surpass those of most men: yet she is not welcome in the afterlife. On seeing her father brutally slain before her eyes as a child, a desire for revenge and fear awakened a beast inside her; the wolf within that her mother passed on before fleeing rabid into the woods.
No werewolf has ever been admitted into the starry gates of Fjarvndor.

Desperate to be reunited with her father and have her vengeance, Sefangr takes great risk in joining the legendary Moonguard; an organisation funded by the King who cull werewolf packs and seek a cure.

Remorseless in killing her own kind and focussed only on finding a way to become human and reunite with her father, Sefangr must keep her identity secret from her comrades. But there are dangers beyond the wolf packs of Threndhal; rumours of war whisper in all corners of Artaldessa, as mysterious shamans begin testing their powers in the Shadi tribes to the East, and great legions assemble in Heret to serve their radical religious leaders.

Both assisted by and forever wary of her Shadi comrade Targo, a sinister but charismatic witch-doctor, Sefangr is dragged ever further into the turbulent politics of Artaldessa and questionable ethics of her choice to hunt alongside the Moonguard. Will she find the cure and win her way back to her father, battering down the great doors of Fjarvndor?
Or will she too, like all the wolves and men she has slain, drown in the seas of blood prophesied to wash over Threndhal?
Time will tell.