Ingrid Torfa juggles two very different lives. In one she lives as an aspiring book illustrator in a quiet old fishing village on the North Shore of Lake Superior. But in the other she lives as an apprentice volva, a Viking Witch, in a lost Norse village that exists half in and half out of the real world. Balancing those two lives is trouble enough. But then a murder forces her to work in both worlds at once. She needs all her friends...