An ARKANE Thriller by J.F. Penn
Day of the Vikings
She has been called many things: murderer, madwoman, monster. She will become only one thing: a god.
Neo-Vikings storm the British Museum and seize an ancient völva staff, the only one never ritually destroyed.
Trapped inside with the hostages is Morgan Sierra, and beside her a museum researcher named Blake Daniel, whose gloved hands can read the history of any object they touch.
From the Great Court to the Lindisfarne Gospels to a storm-lashed island in the Hebrides, one day decides whether Ragnarok stays a myth.
The free ARKANE novella, and the crossover with the Dark London trilogy.
A storm is coming.
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The research behind the book
The volva staffs
The British Museum's 2014 Vikings show displayed real seeresses' staffs. Jo attended, and one staff grew a story.
The raid on Lindisfarne
The first Viking raid in Britain, with fiery dragons in the sky, says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
The Lindisfarne Gospels
Eadfrith's masterpiece and its colophon, resting in the British Library between showings.
Iona
St Columba's island, St Martin's Cross, and the Bay at the Back of the Ocean, described as exactly as Jo could.
Learn more →The Ring of Brodgar
A Neolithic circle under the aurora, where the story begins in blood.
Odin's eye and Mimir's well
Odin traded an eye for wisdom. The novella asks what he got for it.
Stone of Fire
Book 1
Crypt of Bone
Book 2
Ark of Blood
Book 3
One Day in Budapest
Book 4
Day of the Vikings
Book 5 · this book
Gates of Hell
Book 6
One Day in New York
Book 7
Destroyer of Worlds
Book 8
End of Days
Book 9
Valley of Dry Bones
Book 10
Tree of Life
Book 11
Tomb of Relics
Book 12
Soldiers of God
Short story
Spear of Destiny
Book 13