A brutal winter forces two rival Viking clans into a fragile alliance. They must share recourses and land, but old grudges simmer beneath the surface. One clan secretly worships a forgotten god, and members of one of the clan start to disappear. The protagonist - Eirik, a former slave, was now a well-known warrior. Loyal, until he discovers his birth clan is the one losing its members. Torn between loyalty and truth, he ventures to the supposed temple alongside Freya -a young woman who went missing and returned, claiming she had no memory of what happened only to later reveal to him she DOES remember being taken one night, dragged to a mysterious location...but what location?