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Keri Wants One Chance to Break the Boredom

God Sends Him Three

A Varangian king wants him for a soldier

A blond girl wants him for a trophy

A black wolf wants him for a feast

Keri, the teen aged blacksmith’s son, hoped for a little more time between his first kiss and his last, but war and the weather won’t wait.  One of thirty chosen to serve the king, Keri joins a desperate 40-day trek out of their mountain fastness through a snow-buried wilderness . Disasters both natural and man-made defy their passage. And then the wolfpack shows up: unnaturally large, unnaturally led, unnaturally desperate to stop them. Blood in the snow forces an unsteady Keri into physical and spiritual leadership roles he must master immediately. 

When one more step means death, Keri looks among the thieves, pagans, and broken saints for help, but even his love’s star deserts him. Past voices point him to one chance. Grasping his axe, he follows the one-eyed mad man to face the demons.

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