She-Wolf

You know the poem. You know the hero. You don't know the full story.

Beowulf lands on a Danish shore in winter, salt spray soaking her armor, and walks into a failing king's hall with fourteen warriors and a name that already echoes across seas. She fights the monster Grendel without a weapon and wins. She dives into a cursed lake and faces something worse.

But the battles that cost her the most are not the ones fought with fists. They are the battles of legacy and loneliness, of a woman the...