Anno Draconis, Part One: Dawn of the Dragon

‘Wine saves lives,” Sigurd said with a grin, “Other men’s lives.”“Ja! It does!” Olaf boomed, “Pass that pitcher back down here! Let us save the lives of a thousand men!” From the Viking scholar & author of the best-selling non-fiction book, Vikings, War and the Fall of the Carolingians, comes the sweeping epic saga of Sigurd, Litt Ormr (little dragon), a young man driven from his homeland on a quest for revenge and justice.               Destiny propels him. Doom awaits him. Mystery hounds himA saga of murder and war, revenge and redemption, fear and compassion, faithfulness and treachery. A world where magic slumbers in words and in the bones of the earth. Where dreams and reality are forged in the fires of War.Anno Draconis, Part One: Dawn of the Dragon is an historical fiction novel set in 885 A.D., in medieval France amidst the crumbling remains of the Frankish Empire, where the flaccid descendants of Charlemagne squabble over table scraps, while pagan Northmen ravage the land