The Boy with the Black Eye (The Raven Crown Book 1)

In the frozen northern outskirts of Norskheimr, beneath the cursed fjords of Nvallrden, a child is discovered inside a woven basket wrapped in raven feathers and marked from head to toe with shifting Elder Futhark runes glowing ice-blue beneath his skin.The boy possesses a terrible gift.One eye black as the void itself.Through that eye he sees the dead as clearly as the living.Raised in secret by a feared Raven Vitki deep within the Ravenspire, Hrafn Hvitson grows into something both sacred and horrifying — a warrior-seer capable of ice seiðr, necromancy, rune-casting, shape-shifting into ravens, and walking the dead roads between worlds.But the dead never leave him in peace.They whisper endlessly.They beg.They scream from beneath black seas and forgotten graves.When Hrafn receives a vision of Jarl Halfdan of Rusden being blood-eagled beneath the ancient Eagle Tree by a Hollow-Touched ork warband, he journeys south into a land drowning beneath fear, war, and the awakening of an ancient cosmic horror known only as the Hollow.As villages burn and the dead rise across Norskheimr, Hrafn discovers the terrifying truth behind the Black Eye, the Crown, and the ancient burden carried by the forgotten Raven Kings who stood against despair itself.But the Hollow does not conquer through hatred.It conquers through loneliness.Now Hrafn must choose whether to become another broken monster consumed by grief… or forge a new order beneath Odin’s ravens — the Black Ravens — and teach the living and the dead to stand together against the Deep.As ancient gods stir, forgotten watchers awaken beyond the dead seas, and the Hollow turns its dead-star gaze fully upon him, the fate of Norskheimr may rest upon one impossible truth:No soul survives alone. Read more