New Book Is Out
Sequel to the Ballad of the Blacksmith’s Son, Lament follows Keri/Serjeant Sakarias and his villagers into the Russian steppes and the Turk War. But where are they? The war was 15 years ago and the last anyone saw of them they “disappeared under a hundred lances.”
No one seems to care except a Danish stranger who goes to the steppes asking questions of the survivors of that war. He sees the battles, the men, and even the village they left behind through others’ eyes, but never says why he came. He finds many died, but at least one is unaccounted for. Keri is a hero: “He saved the kingdom but not the king.” What happened to him? Is his only reward, his only remembrance, the ballad sung from Novgorod to Jorvik? Following the trail of dead through wrecked taverns and sunken longboats, the stranger sails from Hilhelm across the Baltic until he finds one particular tavern with an answer.
Historic Viking era fiction with a Christian worldview. No preaching but no profanity or on screen sex either and no angels save the day. But there’s this Jewish girl…
