Gallows Born

by A.C. Salter • 2024

He was born on the gallows, the corpse of his mother still swinging from the rope above. His life was off to a bad start. The superstitious villagers branded him as the Son of Death, the Bane of the North. They left him out for the Fug to claim -- a deadly fog ruled by Druagr: Viking warriors who had long ago fallen in battle. They never expected him to return, tattooed with the mark of an ancient god. Fifteen winters later - ridiculed, scorned, but never broken, Bane forges a life as a forager, surviving between Castle Garik and a looming mountain that legend says contains the body of a Norse god. In a strange twist of fate, Bane discovers that the mark gives him abilities beyond those of mortal man, and along with his lineage and a blood link to the god, his journey unfolds, fraught with danger and purpose. As the drums of war close in and the time of men comes to an end, Bane could be the North’s only hope.-- Adapted from page 4 of cover and Amazon description.