Bøger af Alaric Longward

A young Chatti by the name of Adalwulf rides his stolen horse to the lands of the Marcomanni, hoping to find a ring-giver and a new life. What he finds instead is a mysterious priestess looking for him, his innate ability to fight like a demi-god, and plenty of trouble. In the era of Augustus, the borders of River Rhenus are waiting for a change. While the Marcomanni have an uneasy peace with Rome, Rome is turning its eye to the north. The feuds of two Goth lords Bero and Hulderic thrust Adalwulf in a desperate quest that will determine not only his future, the fate of a high-born enemy, the life of a woman he loves, but also the future of the whole Marcomanni tribe. Will Adalwulf succeed in his quest of the Two Swords, even when he has to deal with Leuthard, the beastly champion of the Marcomanni, a strange band of mercenaries led by a murderer, and Roman traitors?

Hraban is riding for Rome.Having lost Drusus to the schemes of a highborn noble in Rome, Hraban and his friends follow Tiberius, and join the Germani Corporis Custodes, the illustrious Germani guard of Augustus. Their mission is not only to guard the lives of the family of the Princeps, but also to uncover who is trying to kill the sons and grandchildren of Livia, wife of Augustus. Drusus is already dead. Will Tiberius be next? Is Julia, the daughter of Augustus to blame, as everyone believes?Navigating the intrigues of Rome is not easy, and Hraban's newly found honor is sorely tested by the schemes of the nobles, paid murdering gladiators on the prowl, and the confusion Hraban must face as he plunges into the shadowy work of a Sword of Tiberius and tries to catch the snake that threatens the family. The truth can only be found in the war-torn Jerusalem, when Hraban has nothing to lose.

In this epic dark fantasy adventure story, Shannon and Dana visit their wise, old grandmother in Wales, and finally learn why their lives have been strangely tormented and cursed. There is a family secret, old as time itself, and that secret might kill them if they try to ignore their destiny. They also learn that there is a dangerous way to embrace that secret, because on that day, a harrowing creature of an alien world calls out for the few and the special, talented humans of the Tenth world. Our world. Dana performs an irreversible murderous deed that opens the gate to the Jewel of the Nine, the world of Aldheim, and they meet the strange creature calling for them. In this world they find their true calling, their special talents, the truth of the gods and also a world of mystery, danger, and adversity. Shannon and Dana struggle with their previous relationship as one grows cruel and power-driven, while the other learns to value friendship. Much is demanded of Shannon, who struggles with her loyalties. Despite the many dangers and their apparently hopeless situation in the brutal, mage-filled world of monsters and dragons, there is hope, for Shannon has special, coveted powers of healing, reserved for the chosen of the gods. If she perseveres, she can change the past and bring back even the gods. But the price will be great. "This is masterful weaving of a story that sucks you in to a coming of age urban fantasy. It doesn't feel like any other book I've read this year, and I've read three or four a week." - Amazon Customer. The Dark Levy, a dark action fantasy novel is a 2015 bestseller and first book in an epic, magical fantasy series called the Ten Tears Chronicles.

It is 1798, and Europe is taking a breath after the War of the First Coalition. For Jeanette, this is the time for happiness. She is a cantiniére of the French 5th Company of the 4th Light Demi-Brigade, and a soldier, finally free of the filth of the revolutionary Paris and her past. By extorting the scheming Director Paul Barras of the French Republic, she is also free of her treacherous cousin Gilbert Baxa, the servant of the Directory. She has a home in the army and she is in love with colonel Henri d'Montepello. Yet, such happiness is as volatile as the Revolutionary France itself and times are changing. France is facing new challenges and Director Barras is making bold moves to remove troublesome, loose ends of his past as well as generals who have grown too powerful and independent. The Republic does not tolerate soldiers who think too deeply and so Jeanette is once more facing Gilbert Baxa and the schemes of the Directory. She finds herself far from home in the sandy, ruthless war of Egypt, as the Army of Orient fights first to conquer the Mamelukes, then to survive. Will Jeanette overcome Gilbert's ruses as she struggles to save herself and young Napoleon Bonaparte, a general forever changed by his trials in Egypt?

She tried to murder her cousin Gilbert. She shot her uncle. She did it for her family. Unfortunately for her, she failed in killing Gilbert. Young Jeanette Baxa and her mother seek refuge with desperate men during the age of French Revolution in Paris. Yet no refuge is safe when these dangerous men attempt to foment great, king-killing changes. After discovering a secret of the revolutionary leaders and being hunted by Jeanette's mad cousin Gilbert, the two become desperate exiles. They survive the Temple, an infamous prison, and make their way through the festering age of Terror in Paris, while being hunted by their enemies. They find hope in the army, where a handsome captain gives them shelter from Gilbert and the Jacobins. Here, Jeanette learns of love and family in the ranks of the revolutionary army as a cantinière. But even with the help of her new allies, can she take the fight to Gilbert and his masters, and win a place in the armies of future Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte?

Hraban the Marcomanni has been cast out of his tribe by his treacherous father Maroboodus. He has lost his tribe, his mother and both grandfathers, and his fame and honor with the ones he loved. He has been lied to, he has been used to further his father's plots and in the end discarded, and his lot was to linger in slavery to Odo, a priest to Lok until he would die, having fulfilled the needs of a deadly prophecy. However, he refused to die. Instead, he escaped Odo and the Roman ally king, Vago the Vangione, and took the head of his mother's slayer. Now, he will go home. He will go home to burn his father's hall for revenge, and to erase the blot on his fame, the title of the Oath Breaker, by deeds of bravery and spears. He has much to pay back for, his friends to rescue and his fame to regain. Yet, his allies are few and none come without a price. In the end, Hraban will find the road to regaining his fame is twisted and tricky, and what he will find might be entirely different from what he set out to gain.

Hraban the Marcomanni has never met his father Maroboodus, exiled in far-away Rome, but this is about to change. In the age of early Roman empire, Augustus is creating his legacy with gladius as the legions begin the arduous work of subjecting the troublesome and divided Germani tribes. Such great, distant issues do not concern Hraban, a young man bent on becoming a spear lord, giver of rings, a warrior praised in the dark halls of his kin. He is the Raven, and son of great lords. Yet his father's return to their burning village does not only upset plans of Rome and the scheming Germani, but those of Hraban, who finds the ancient virtues of his kin are very strained with strange morals of Maroboodus, his father. Will Hraban find a way to survive the plots of his many enemies, serve his father and keep his honor while entire nations struggle to unite against Rome and those, who would betray the Germani? The Oath Breaker is the first book in a new series of historical novels set in the dark lands east of Rhenus and fabulous, ancient Rome. The Oath Breaker is an Amazon US and UK #1 bestseller in Travel Adventure Fiction.

Maskan has survived the betrayal of those he thought he loved. The shock of his true heritage and relation to those he thought he hated has left him a changed person. Literally. The former thief, a scoundrel of Dagnar successfully led the betrayed people of Red Midgard against the invading legions of Balic, the High King. He discovered secrets of the past, part of the hidden schemes of Goddess Hel's minions, and now, as the king apparent of the torn nation, he must lead what remains in a near hopeless fight against the evil Draugr, powerful Hammer Legions of Balic, and those allies, who would betray the whole Midgard by greed and distrust. Will Maskan navigate a path through his own weaknesses, find a way to appease the cold, ruthless demi-goddess Baduhanna, survive High King Balic's renewed assault, and unravel the mystery of the Queen of the Draugr, a secret, that seems to be the key to narrow victory or utter loss.

Goddess Hel's terrible curse spreads rampantly across the Nine Worlds, and only the Gjallarhorn, the horn to open the closed gates, provides some hope of restoring what was lost.In war torn Aldheim, Shannon's victory in the White Court has been a temporary thing. Euryale might be dead, but Shannon and her friends are besieged in Himingborg by the elves, who finally have a common enemy in Shannon. Mad goddess Hel's demands on Shannon to punish Aldheim, makes the situation even more grim for both the besieged, and the besiegers.Ulrich, as the sole Ten Tear remaining at Shannon's side, is requested to go on a quest. Reluctantly, he will lead an expedition to Svartalfheim, to find Dana and the Horn, in hopes of saving Shannon from the elves and Hel both. While there, he must balance between his friendship and oath to Shannon, while trying to figure out what foul plans are being woven behind his back in the land of Night. His struggle to remain loyal in the army of the draugr is getting increasingly hard, after he discovers the dead have no friends, only tools.Will Ulrich find the Gjallarhorn, and will he save Shannon and the Nine Worlds, in the murk of Svartalfheim?

Rome's power is ever growing. The wolf's claws reach far beyond its shores, and its enemies are weak and scattered. Roman law rules over most of the Mediterranean.And still, there are places in the world, where trouble is brewing. Some of those places are older than Rome, and darker.In Lycian Limyra, Gaius, the young man Augustus adopted, his one hope for his own bloodline to rule on, the man who is supposed to carry on building the Rome Augustus has built with blood, luck, and determination, is resting. Gaius, fresh from his duties in the east, wounded in Armenia, is not coming home. He seems content on having a holiday, and perhaps a permanent one. Rumors reach Rome, and Augustus is getting anxious. At the same time, in Limyra, Romans are being murdered brutally, and some speak of a vengeful spirit, or spirits from its bloody past are taking revenge for Rome's many ambitions and crimes. The missing heads, and the ominous horn blowing after each kill means Gaius is not safe, and Rome's honor must be restored.Decimus, the medicus Segolia, and his band or praetorian speculatores must go and solve the crimes, and to bring Gaius home. Neither task seems overly hard. They have an alliance with Pericles, the first man of Limyra, and they think they know who the killer is. Second, Gaius has no soldiers, and he will go home, at sword's point, if it comes to that.And still, the murders are far more complicated than they anticipated, more mysterious, far more brutal, and everyone involved has an agenda they will pursue to the death, if must be. Will Decimus discover the secrets of the Furies, and will he and his band of hardened soldiers get out of Limyra, their duties finished?

A devil's servant kills Konrad's wife for pleasureKonrad commits his soul to the devil to find the manIn 1283, a great war is brewing in Germany over the succession of the Duchy of Limburg. The Luxembourgs and the Brabants are locked in a power-struggle in an era when the German Dukes and Counts settled their scores in a battlefield, and any family might grasp the crown of Germany. Konrad, a minor knight in the service of the Luxembourgs loses his wife to a mysterious killer. Despairing, he commits his sword to war, and soul to the devil. Working for Adolf of Berg, the killer and Konrad are locked in a game for the devil, and their struggle might even determine which great house wins the war. Setting his men against mighty Adolf of Berg and his sinister servants, Konrad must choose between the devil's favor and the love of a virtuous woman. Will Konrad defeat Adolf and his servants with devil's help, or will he find serving his lord and new love is enough of a reason to break his oaths to the Old Serpent?The Wolf and the Lion is the first book in a brutal historical action and adventure fiction series set in the Medieval Europe and Germany.

In this epic dark fantasy action story, we again follow the two sisters of Earth, Shannon and Dana, and their magical friends the Ten Tears, as they struggle to find safety in the world of Aldheim, the home of elves. After grueling two years of slavery under the dread Gorgon Euryale, Shannon has led her friends on a magical escape from Gray Downs, the haunt of the Devourer. Suffering losses during the escape, they hope for better times. However, the Ten Tears find the future bleak, as the portal Dark Prayer drops the young mages into the middle of the Dancing Bay. There begins a leg in their journey to find the Eye of Hel, a long-lost artefact of the Goddess of Rot before Euryale does. Whoever recovers the Eye, might bargain with the Goddess Hel for the stolen Horn Gjallarhorn that should restore the gods of the Aesir and the Vanir to the Nine Worlds. For Shannon, this is a desperate goal, as she is dying of Euryale's Rot and threatened by a Dragon Pact she made with Euryale's slave to gain them all their access to magic. Also, the world of Aldheim is not the peaceful haven of elven kind, but rife with treachery, war, and games of power and Shannon finds herself discovering secrets about the high houses, her companions, her sister's greed and fears, and even the gods. Will Shannon recover the Eye of Hel? Eye of Hel is a dark action fantasy novel and the second book in an epic, magical fantasy series called the Ten Tears Chronicles.

Treading a precarious path as a killer for a deadly lady in Rome, Hraban risks his life, and that of his friends to regain his family.His lot is that of a spy, and a killer, as his band of Germani Custodes Corporis seeks clues to guard the life of Tiberius, who is an exile in Rhodes. If they succeed, his family will be released, and Rome will change for good.Yet, long years of treading paths of servitude have left Hraban tired of being the victim to the mighty. Knowing full well no word of his wicked mistress can be trusted, Hraban finally takes route that is of his own making. The terror and deceit he intends to deal to his enemies is cleverly planned, but such a path will finally push Hraban away from his pursuit of fame, off the quest of clearing his name, and perhaps far from his hope to gain revenge on the killer of his family and Drusus. He might be left with power enough to choose his own destiny, should he survive, and succeed.Will Hraban's desperate plan give him what he most yearns for, or will it indeed cost him his life, his honor, his friends, and indeed, even the family he hopes to protect?The Bane of Gods is book number five in the continuing saga of the Hraban Chronicles, and will take place from Rome to Armenia, and from the limes of Illyricum to the depths of Germania, where Varus meets his fate.

During the era of Augustus, there is a wild, untamed land far in the north, where no Roman sandal has yet trodden, and there Maroboodus, the son and adeling of a Goth lord Hulderic simmers with rage over the many injustices their family has to endure. Maroboodus is not alone in his malcontent. Competition for survival and glory is a brutal, daily struggle. Life is harsh indeed for the tribes of the north and while god Woden's people, the troubled Goth nations have spread south and east from the islands of Gothonia, surging over the sea Rome calls Mare Gothonia to find new homes, the family of Maroboodus has taken dangerous lands in the east, pushing the old tribes of the Svea from the coasts. There, death by spear and hunger is part of daily life. The tribes of Maroboodus, led by the mighty Friednot and Hughnot of the Goths, live by the Long-Lake, enduring Saxon raids and Svea hostility. Only family ties and wise alliances can help them, because even the Thiuda of the noblest of the ancient Goth families, their old relative the Boat-Lord, resent and fear those who would build something on their own. Alliances get strained when high lords die, and old grudges will risk everything when the tribes should remain strong and united. In such a time, the troubled Maroboodus finds his patience and endurance sorely tested by another injustice after a victorious battle, and seeks to change the fortunes of their family, even against the wishes of his father, Hulderic. He does so by allying with their nemesis, hoping to grasp a high-born woman as his own and to bring glory to his name and family. Will the boldness of Maroboodus change the fate of the squabbling, threatened Goths, or plunge them, and Maroboodus, whose blood is plagued by an ancient curse of Lok, into the arms of their enemies? In this historical fiction adventure story of ancient Germania, we embark on the road of the trials of Maroboodus the Goth, as he eventually becomes one of the mightiest Germani kings.