A Curse Carved in Bone
The secret of her divine heritage revealed, Freya finds herself on a path that will see thousands of lives lost to the magic in her blood. Desperate to avoid this dark fate, she risks an alliance with Skaland's greatest enemy to seek answers from the seer who foretold her future — the same seer who sent Bjorn to kill her. While Freya still seethes with rage over Bjorn's betrayal, the blood oaths that bind her demand that she keep him close as she hunts for a way to avert the looming war. Her magic draws her to the front lines of an old enmity, embroiling her with Nordeland's Unfated — children of the gods who serve the king she was raised to fear. The same king who, unlike Bjorn, is now willing to fight at her back. For despite the desire that burns hot between Bjorn and Freya, his growing distrust of her chosen path threatens to drag them further apart. As war approaches, gods and mortals must choose their weapons. Yet the fiercest battle will be the one Freya wages within herself. With the magic of two goddesses burning in her veins, she must weave the threads of destiny to decide her own fate: will she be the shield that protects her people, or the curse that destroys them?
A shield maiden and daughter of the goddesses Hlin and Hel, forced to weigh a prophecy that could make her either the shield or the curse of her people.
The Skalander jarl who holds Freya to the blood oath he bound her with in book one, still pursuing the throne a prophecy promised him.
King of Nordeland, Bjorn's adoptive father and the ruler Freya was raised to fear, who commands the god-descended Unfated of his court.
Jarl Snorri's firstborn son, raised in Nordeland by King Harald; the seer's warning drove him to a betrayal Freya has not forgiven even as the blood oath keeps them together.
One of the two goddesses whose blood Freya carries, and the source of the shield-maiden magic that first marked her as Unfated.
Yes. A Curse Carved in Bone is the second and concluding half of Danielle L. Jensen's Saga of the Unfated duology, picking up directly from the events of A Fate Inked in Blood.
Yes. The Saga of the Unfated is a completed duology, and A Curse Carved in Bone is its second and final installment.