<p>From the bestselling author of A Natural History of Dragons comes a thrilling epic fantasy of treachery, lies and witchcraft<br>The bondmaid Hervor is used to dead men whispering in her sleep. They've been doing it for as long as she can remember; it's the living she has to watch out for. And when a new arrival at her holding triggers her into a berserker fury, she's forced to flee the contract that enslaves her and into the arms of an uncerta...