The Oathbreaker's Song

A raider captain breaks his oath to save a child marked by dead-god blood, and the price is everything—his name, his ship, his crew's safety. Tormund Ragnvald flees across the Skeldmark, a brutal archipelago built from the bones of a slain Serpent-God, pursued by a High King who sacrifices the god-blooded to fuel an ancient ritual. When a pit-fighter carrying a divine relic and a young poet who has decoded the killing verses cross his path, their fragile alliance becomes the archipelago's last hope against a god struggling to be reborn.