Viking Witch Hunter
C R Dempsey
Type: Beta project
Genre: Historical fiction
Word count: 104,000
Warnings: Graphic violence, swearing
Ninth-century Ireland burns under Viking steel. As rival warlords battle for control, Thurgest summons deadly Norse warriors and witch hunters to destroy the witches who ruined him. Meanwhile, Hjalmar Haakonsson marches on Tara, seeking Ireland’s High Kingship. Caught between war, duty, and love, Hibernian warrior Finn must choose where his loyalty lies before kingdoms, families, and lives are destroyed.
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Ireland burns under Viking steel. Warlords rise, witches plot, and one Hibernian warrior must choose between loyalty, love, and survival. Ninth-century Ireland is fractured by rival kings, Viking warlords, and ancient beliefs. Two powerful Viking camps dominate the coast, ruled by the feared Haakonsson brothers.
In Dyflin, Thurgest seeks revenge against the mountain witches who shattered his power. Desperate, he summons the deadliest warriors and witch hunters from the Norse homelands, unknowingly calling forth a rival who threatens his rule. Meanwhile, in Linn Duachaill, Hjalmar Haakonsson is courted by traitors promising him Ireland's High Kingship. Gathering his warriors, he marches on Tara to conquer kings and kingdoms.
Caught between these gathering storms is Finn, a Hibernian warrior torn between duty and love. With his mother demanding loyalty and a Hibernian princess claiming his heart, Finn must choose where his allegiance lies as armies collide and Ireland descends into war. Brutal and historically grounded, Viking Witch Hunter is a tale of conquest, faith, betrayal, and survival.
C. R. Dempsey is the author of the Viking Age novels Viking Dawn and Viking Oathbreaker, as well as the Exiles series set in Elizabethan Ireland. Fascinated by history from an early age, he found historical fiction the natural outlet for a lifetime of accumulated knowledge and relentless curiosity about the past.
His novels combine gritty action, political intrigue, and the harsh realities of life in turbulent periods of Irish history. Whether writing about Viking invasions or the struggles of Gaelic Ireland under Elizabethan rule, he is drawn to stories of loyalty, betrayal, survival, and ambition.
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