Brandr's First Blood

Brandr has grown up on stories of raids.
Silver. Glory. Battle. Heroes coming home with scars and stories.
Nobody mentioned the fear.
On his first voyage aboard the Wave Serpent, Brandr expects a chance to prove himself worthy of a place in the Jarl’s warband. Instead, he and a crew of barely grown warriors land on a silent Danish shore and walk straight into a trap.
Cut off from their ship, surrounded the young raiders are thrown into a battle they were never ready to fight.
Brandr discovers that surviving his first blood may require more than strength with a spear.
Leadership has a price, and some decisions cannot be undone.
Brandr’s First Blood is a brutal, darkly humorous Viking fantasy adventure about courage, loyalty and the bloody distance between dreaming of glory and earning it.
Read this if you like Bernard Cornwell’s brutal Viking action, Terry Pratchett’s dry humour, and David Gemmell’s battered heroes.
Read this if you want shield walls, bad decisions, bloody consequences, and a young warrior discovering that glory looks very different up close.

Brandr’s First Blood is the first story in The Salt Rider Chronicles, a prequel to Book One, Brandr’s Siege, coming September 2027.