The Skald's Black Verse

By Jordan Loyal Short

When a shadowy creature appears on the long night of the solstice festival, Brohr is blamed for the grisly murder it commits. He flees the noose, one step ahead of his people's otherworldly oppressors, into the hinterlands, where dark magic, family secrets, and a band of broken rebels await.

Overhead, a grim omen spells the end of the world. With the help of a precocious thief, and a binder of spirits who is whispered to be a collaborator, Brohr must rally his downtrodden people to rise up, lest they perish in the looming apocalypse.

But the leader of the provincial garrison is a fallen aristocrat with designs of his own, and in the shadows, the creature that sparked it all wages a secret war against the heavens.

From barbaric hinterlands, to cosmopolitan cities in the sky, to vistas more distant than any star, three villagers from an obscure backwater are bound by fate to war against the gods themselves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1730980635
• ISBN13: 9781730980633
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"