The Gripping Beast

Eirik Hjaltison barely escapes his father’s enemies during a vicious attack on the family farm. Soon he finds himself in the heartland of Europe, and up against far greater forces than he can take on alone. But there is a bright-eyed Egyptian girl who can sew wounds, and seven men from the North who come along for some plunder, and to shop for fancy boots at the local markets. They follow the dark trail of the Medieval Slave Trade, to avenge the family and take back their honor, and are quickly embroiled in a struggle to the death. Within inches from final vindication, Eirik’s pride proves his greatest enemy, and he faces a final struggle that will take every ounce of his wit and every fiber of his strength, to save everything he holds dear in life.