There was once a maid who loved a man with a splinter of her heart; her soul she gave to the village she adored and the blind Jewess she took to the mountain.
Brigit and her mother Monica are war criminals by blood: despised throughout Norway as the last living relatives of Erik Brenna – the Coward of Fólkvangr – whose act of betrayal led to the loss of two hundred lives.
Sullen and illiterate after a lifetime as a fugitive, Brigit embarks on a quest to bring her father to justice, aided and tormented by a repentant German soldier and a psychotic Nazi hunter.
Her journey takes her far from home, across Germany and Israel, uncovering a hidden history of war crimes, international conspiracies, and a triangle of forbidden love that begins and ends with the massacre at Fólkvangr.
