A Stranger at the Hearth

A bold and transportive retelling that Publishers Weekly calls "a treat for historical fantasy lovers," The Norse Saga of Sigurd renders bright a world of witches, gods, and valkyries-a place of mythic terrors and searing beauty. A widowed queen, heavy with child, seeks refuge in a foreign kingdom, and there her son is born: Sigurd, last of the Volsung line. But what seems a destiny of glorious revenge will not be so simple. The weavers of fate have many threads to spin, some beautiful ... ...