The Martyr of the Islands

Book VI of The Nine Oaths

von Enrico Papalini

262 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

No one intends to create a martyr. But fear, loyalty and an ambiguous command can become fatal before anyone controls the story.The ships gathering around Egilsay carry men who believe they are preventing disaster. Their loyalties are real. So are their fears. Between them stands Leif, the one man neither faction can easily call an enemy.Sigurd seeks to contain a crisis without turning kin against kin. Einar tries to separate orders from assumptions and evidence from the stories already forming around them. Aila and Runa work to keep negotiation possible while armed households interpret every signal through old grievance. Svan sees how quickly men who came to protect one another can become a threat.Then a chain of partial instructions, private decisions and loyal disobedience pushes the islands towards an act no single person intended.In the aftermath, truth must compete with grief. Testimony is slow, qualified and difficult to remember. A song is immediate. A personal object can become a relic. A dead man can acquire a purpose he never claimed while the living argue over blame, miracle and meaning.The Martyr of the Islands is a restrained historical-fantasy tragedy about distributed responsibility and the making of public memory-the sixth volume of The Nine Oaths.

• ISBN: 9798194778614
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp