The Sea Queen: A Novel Audiobook (Free)
- Matthew Lloyd Davies
- 17 h 40 min
- HarperAudio
- 2018-08-14
Summary:
An exciting Viking saga filled with the rich background, romantic experience and politics intrigue which have produced Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander, George R. R. Martin’s Video game of Thrones, aswell as Phillippa Gregory’s historic fiction and Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology well-known bestsellers.
Six years after The Half-Drowned Ruler, Ragnvald Eysteinsson is currently ruler of Sogn, but fighting battles for King Harald keeps him abroad, as he confronts treachery about The Sea Queen: A Novel and navigates a political surroundings that grows more threatening the bigger he rises.
Ragnvald’s sister Svanhild provides found the independence and adventure she craves at the side of the rebel explorer Solvi Hunthiofsson, though not with out a cost. She longs for a house where her calm son can grow strong, and a location where she can deposit roots, even while Solvi’s ambition pulls him back to Norway’s battles once again and retains her divided from her sibling.
As an evergrowing rebellion unites King Harald’s foes, Ragnvald suspects that some Norse nobles are not loyal to Harald’s dream of a unified Norway. He pieces an idea in movement to defeat all of his opponents, and bring his sister back again to his aspect, while Svanhild discovers herself with no easy decisions, no choices that will leave her truly free. Their activities will hold irrevocable repercussions for the fates of these they love and for Norway itself.
THE OCEAN Queen returns towards the fjords and halls of Viking-Age Scandinavia, an environment of violence and prophecy, where honor is challenged by shifting alliances, and vengeance is always a threat to peace.