Anno Draconis (in the Year of the Dragon)

Sigurd slipped the axe from his belt, "How do you throw?" I throw with my heart. "Why do you fight?" War is my Fate; it is the will of the gods. "What is your destiny?" To dine with my fathers in Valhalla...



In the year of our Lord, 885, I saw a dragon rise from the sea.

A Dark Monk haunts the Land of the Franks.The Viking Sigurd seeks vengeance...Will he find justice?Will all the world burn in his wake?Can Sister Katharine save the village of Saint Etienne from the ravages of the Northmen?Will Roger choose duty or the safety of his kin?Can young Willie and his faithful dog, Iggy, save Roger from certain death?Who is the enigmatic Brother Reignold? To what purpose does he wander the land? Will Magnus Audulfsson ever reap what he has sown?

From the author of the best-selling non-fiction book, Vikings, War and the Fall of the Carolingians, comes the sweeping epic saga of Sigurd, Litt Ormr (little dragon), a young man driven from his homeland on a quest for revenge and justice.

Destiny propels him. Doom awaits him. Mystery hounds him.A tale of murder and war, revenge and redemption, fear and compassion, faithfulness and treachery. A world where magic slumbers in words and in the bones of the earth. Where dreams and reality are forged in the fires of War.

Anno Draconis, Book One, Part One of the series, Liber Draconis, is an historical fiction novel set in 885 A.D., in medieval France amidst the crumbling remains of the Frankish Empire. While the flaccid descendants of Charlemagne squabble over table scraps, pagan Northmen ravage the land and its people with sword, axe, and torch: pillaging a path toward the gates of Paris.

Anchored in real history, brought to life with elements of magical realism, horror, suspense and mystery, a story of intense emotions and sweeping conflict, seeking to solve the timeless mystery: Who, or What, is the Dragon?



If Bernard Cornwell's Uhtred, Stephen King's Roland the Gunslinger, Kung Fu's Caine, Tolkien's Strider and Turin Turambar all met in the Green Dragon, drank themselves to oblivion and spent the night, their love-child would be Sigurd Hrolfsson, Litt Ormr...

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