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A Vengeful Wind
BOOK VIII OF THE NORSEMEN SAGA
Summer comes to Ireland and an uneasy peace holds at Loch Garman. The Northmen, eager to get to sea, work relentlessly on their ships, with the aid of their unlikely allies, the Irish, who are just as eager to see them go. But not everyone is willing to just let them sail away. Certain that God demands the heathens be punished, the one-eyed warrior-turned-monk Brother Bécc is determined that Thorgrim and his men will not simply go free. And when another band of raiders arrives, Bécc finds the excuse he needs to take action. Meanwhile, in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, murder leads to a violent struggle for the seat of ealdorman, ruler of the shire of Dorset. Desperate as each side is to tip the balance of power their way, no one imagines that the upper hand might come from the direction they least expect: from the sea.
"[Nelson] writes with such clarity and conviction... follow the action and be gripped
​by it...."
– Allan Massie, The Wall Street Journal
Loch Garman
BOOK VII OF THE NORSEMEN SAGA
Driven ashore on the coast of Ireland, their longships wrecked by gods who seem unwilling to let them leave, Thorgrim Night Wolf and his band of Northmen once again face a battle for their survival. Helpless without their ships, they must find some refuge in that hostile country and begin the laborious work of making the vessels seaworthy again. But for all the shipbuilding skills that Thorgrim and the others possess, there is one thing they cannot do: weave cloth to replace their lost sails. For that they must strike a bargain with the Irish, the very people who most want them dead. But no such bargain can last for long, and soon betrayal and deceit have the Northmen trapped by an enemy determined to crush them once and for all.
"Nelson's Viking Sagas are a tour de force of tautly crafted twists, turns full of authentic detail, and plots that drive you to the finish!"
 – Dewey Lambdin, author of the Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures
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