Year 750 CE Just north of todays Swedish border, Jellestadhaugen stood for centuries as one of Norway’s great unsolved mysteries. Then, in 2018, archaeologists searching the fields around the mound made a startling beneath the soil lay a buried ship, the traces of great buildings, and a lost world. The Ironmaker takes the reader to 8th-century Norway, in the lands around Viken. Here, honor is fragile and ambition carries weight. A world where power is earned and peace is seldom lasting. Varg Svalesson, the young chieftain of Jellestad, stands at a turning point. He loves his wife Alvhild and the life they have built, yet he feels the pull of something beyond hearth and fields. The sea calls for him. Not only for wealth, but for reputation, for standing, for a name that will outlive him. When desire collides with duty, the consequences are swift and unforgiving. From the deep forests of the east to the cold fjords and open sea in the west, Varg must choose between loyalty and ambition, between protecting what he has and risking everything for what he may become. The Ironmaker is the first book in The Age of Wolves series, a hard-edged saga of love, ambition, loyalty, and the price of becoming a leader in a dangerous world.