A thousand years before captaining the Sleipnir and recruiting Berto into the galactic fight against the Syndroids, Revna was a Viking shieldmaiden.

Her village wants her to settle down and raise babies, but Revna is not ready to trade in her shield for a cradle. For now, all she wants is the same as the band of warriors she travels with--adventure and glory. But all of the glory will belong to her cousin Torsten when he lifts the hammer and claims his place among the nobility of her village.

At least that's what she thinks until she listens to a seeress's cryptic words of gods coming down from the stars not long before a man in her party begins to change. He was cruel enough before, but now his physical body matches his cold, hard heart.

Can Revna survive the seemingly supernatural forces infecting them, or will she perish before she can claim a seat next to the gods among the stars?