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A Mankind Witch

To the North of the Holy Roman Empire lie the pagan Norse-lands.
It is here that Manfred, Prince of Brittany, and his Icelandic
bodyguard, Erik, must venture in the dead of winter. To a rugged
land of trolls and ice, to find a Pagan relic, something so magical
that should not be possible to touch it, let alone steal it. Yet, it is
gone. Unless it is recovered before Yuletide, a new Viking age will
be born. King Vortenbras will lead his berserks in an orgy of rapine,
looting and destruction across the Empire's unguarded flank.

Princess Signy is the King's older stepsister. Everyone believes
her to be the thief, a witch and murderess. Everyone but Cair, her
stable-thrall, an ocean-plucked man with a hidden past. Cair
doesn't believe in witches or magic, let alone that Signy could steal
and murder. And if he has to drag the foremost knight of the age
and his bodyguard kicking and screaming through the entire Norse
underworld to prove it, he'll do it. No kobold, dwarf or troll is going
to stop him or his scepticism. Not the wild hunt. Not even a
grendel. He doesn't believe in this superstitious rubbish. He's a
man of science, and he's used that to fake his way into being
feared as magic-worker. But for Signy, he'll be all of mankind's
witches.

He'll have to be. Because that's what it'll take to defeat the dark
magics massed against her.

A tale of intrigue, murder, love and magic set in the alternate
history world SHADOW OF LION and THIS ROUGH MAGIC.

About the Author:

Dave Freer is an Ichthyologist turned author because he'd heard
that the spelling requirements were simpler. They lied about that.
He lives in a remote part of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with his
wife and chief proof-reader, Barbara, four dogs and four cats, two
sons (Paddy and James) and just at the moment no shrews, birds,
bats or any other rescued wildlife. He does his best to blame his
extraordinary spelling on an Old English Sheepdog nose, or the
cat/s on his lap. It has nothing to do with falling out of pear trees
onto his head or spending too long underwater freediving for spiny
lobster.

His first book Ч The Forlorn (Baen) came out in 1999. Since then
he has co-authored with Eric Flint (Rats, Bats and Vats, Pyramid
Scheme, and The Rat, Bat and the Ugly) and, with Mercedes
Lackey and Eric Flint (Shadow of the Lion, This Rough Magic,
Wizard of Karres) as well writing as various shorter works.