The Grimvik Saga: The King's Gift

By Craig Giannelli

Some gifts are given to be repaid. The costliest are given to be worn.

Three years after he buried the woman he loved, Einharn leads other men's sons up a foreign beach, walking in front where the arrows fall thickest, and does not die, and cannot say he is sorry. Grief has done a terrible thing to the carpenter who once held every life in his town too precious to spend: it has made him useful to a king.

The crown offers Grimvik a gift no people ever refused. A green new country. Safe walls, already built. A running start on the whole trading world. It is generous past belief, and it is a hook with a coastline for bait, and the one man who might see it clearly is too hollow to look.

While he is away being the king's blade, another keeps the world he left behind. Astrid tends his hall, his motherless boys, his very grief, and asks for nothing, and is never once seen; and the town grows rich and strong and dear on a shore that is slowly, quietly becoming home. But a free town that grows too strong is a debt a frightened crown will one day call in. And when the horn is finally sounded, the men of Grimvik will discover what their friendship was always worth, and exactly what a gift costs.

No villains. No glorious wars. Only good people, a hard new coast, and the quiet, unbearable price of being worth having.

The hands keep the world while the heart is away.

THE KING'S GIFT is Book Two of THE NORTH REMEMBERS.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8QM438Z
• ISBN13: 9798187029846
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"