Bone Woman

De: A.J. Glasse

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

A healer forced to save the son of the man who destroyed everything she loved.

When Norse raiders burn her village and murder her mentor, Eira — a twenty-four-year-old healer and seeress — is dragged from the ashes and given an impossible choice: save the dying son of the jarl who ordered the attack, or watch her twenty-two surviving villagers die in captivity.

The boy is twelve. He has been poisoned by a rival, and he has weeks to live. The cure lies across the sea, in a Saxon monastery deep in enemy territory. Eira must guide a Norse war-band through hostile England to find a monk who may hold the antidote — all while keeping alive the child of the man she has every reason to let die.

What begins as a desperate bargain becomes something far more dangerous: a journey that will force Eira to kill, to lie, to forge alliances with men she despises, and to confront the most terrifying discovery of all — that the line between healer and destroyer is thinner than a surgical blade.

As she fights her way across a war-torn landscape with a crew of battle-hardened warriors, a silent bodyguard who carves birds from birch wood, and a boy whose trust she never asked for, Eira must navigate a web of shifting loyalties where every choice saves one life and costs another. Saxon ambushes. A monastery under siege. A monk who trades medicine for intelligence. And a jarl whose confession about why he burned her village is more devastating than the fire itself — because she understands it.

Armed with her mother's carved rune-bones, a surgeon's knowledge of anatomy, and a fury she has learned to bank rather than spend, Eira will discover that the most powerful weapon in the Viking age isn't a sword.

It's a woman who knows how to wait.

Bone Woman is a visceral, propulsive historical thriller set in ninth-century Scandinavia and England during the era of the Great Heathen Army. It combines the unflinching realism of Bernard Cornwell's The Last Kingdom with the fierce female perspective of Nicola Griffith's Hild and the moral complexity of Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself.

Book One of the Bone Woman series.