Marauder
D. W. Roach
trade paper $12.99
ebook $2.99

I’ll confess, I bought this one based on the cover art as much as anything.  I’m a sucker for a knockout blond with a sword.  It turned out to be a good buy.

Audan is a young Viking, son of an ambitious chieftan.  A raid goes wrong, and by wrong I mean they don’t kill everybody, and the survivors come for revenge.  Audan’s father answers to another chieftan higher ranking than he is.  As punishment, he send Audan’s father and his men on yet another raid.

It turns out to be a fight they can’t win. Continue reading →