The Guardian's Speaker Volume One

Some call it gift. Others, curse.

For Líf, her ability to see each person's guardian spirit had always been a double-edged sword. She hated drawing attention to herself, especially by those who thought her mad, and yearned for a quiet life. Her greatest fear was that her siblings might not return from the summer raids. Being at sea terrified her-the surging waves, the rolling motion of a longship, the murky depths below-and yet her society flourished from the wealth brought from war and wate...