Land: Grimdark Norse Mythology Retelling of Discovery of Iceland
Synopsis
Love. Land. Loss. Happy Never After. The truth Maya fought for all her life turns out to be a lie a thousand years long. She neither understands nor knows how to wield her hidden power, simultaneously endless and limited, forcing her to face responsibility for the harm she causes and parry countless questions she has no answers to. Neither time norโฆ Love. Land. Loss. Happy Never After. The truth Maya fought for all her life turns out to be a lie a thousand years long. She neither understands nor knows how to wield her hidden power, simultaneously endless and limited, forcing her to face responsibility for the harm she causes and parry countless questions she has no answers to. Neither time nor space can stop her โ but can she stop herself? Bound with an unbreakable love spell, Magni and Thorolf, both raised in darkness and pain, only share one thing: the fear of revealing their truths. One was born to be a God; the other only knows a slaveโs life. One craves peace and quiet; the other believes peace is a brief reprieve between wars. As they mourn those they have lost, the constant war of their own threatens to destroy all they have left โ each other. Haunted by Gods old and new, in the shadow of Odinโs raven, they head to conquer the new รsgard. Apart from their demons, nothing and nobody is what it seems. Unwilling to give up love, freedom, or land theyโre fated to live happily never afterโฆ unless destiny can be altered after all?
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