From Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical saga about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings.
She will alter the course of history--and become the revolutionary heroine of her own myth..
Yafeu may have lost her home, but she still knows who she is, and she\'s not afraid to be the flame that burns a city to the ground so a new world can rise from the ashes.
And with the princess at her side, Yafeu learns to navigate this new world and grows increasingly determined to become one of the legendary Shield maidens--to fight not only for her freedom but for the freedom of others.
Yafeu inspires Freydis to dream of a future greater than the one that the king and queen have forced upon her.
But they both want the same thing: to forge their own fate.
She comes to serve Freydis, a shy princess who couldn\'t be more different from the confident and self-possessed Yafeu.
And there she also finds something unexpected: a kindred spirit.
There she is thrust into a strange, cold world of savage Shield maidens, tyrannical rulers, and mysterious gods.
This saga begins with Yafeu, a defiant yet fiercely compassionate young warrior who is stolen from her home in the flourishing Ghānaian empire and taken to a distant kingdom in the North.
There is another story, one that has been lost to the mists of time: the saga of the dark queen.
But the stories we know are not the only stories to tell.
Intimate, tender, and fiercely epic.--Tomi Adeyemi, author of Children of Blood and Bone Lore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings: warrior kings on epic journeys of conquest and plunder.
From Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical saga about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings
