Not all women are born for love. Some are born to bring death and destruction. Maybe Bjorn shouldn’t have taken that stray girl from the mysterious Zatonia into his retinue. Strange settlement—this lost place in the swamps of Zatonia. Not people around—undead. “They say an old sorcerer lives in Zatonia with his goblin-like underlings—lembois and other dark creatures—and he has an amazing power to move from the living world to the world of the dead. And he hides from uninvited guests at the edge between the living and the dead—so he can’t be caught.” Even a seasoned warrior like Bjorn, recalling this wilderness, can’t help but clench his heart. So who is his strange companion, Aisha, really? What does she bring to the mighty warrior—love or death? Slavic myths, Scandinavian sagas, hatred and love, the fates of ordinary people and great jarls intertwine in yet another novel from Olga Grigoryeva’s Scandinavian cycle “The Pack” (2005).