This is book two in the series, and this time the Vikings have not come to raid but to invade.
They have not come to take trinkets and Bullion from abbeys and churches. They have come to take the land itself, and this time they do not arrive within a few ships carryng Thanes but they are coming as an entire army led by the sons of ragnor lothbrok. And these sons have sworn an oath to Odin that they will kill King Aella of Northumbria for his murder of their father.It again will set two nobles against each other. One a Norse Jarl, the other a Saxon Ealdorman. One wants to conquer and take the lands whilst the other wants to deny him his conquest.