In a world where Norse Gods and the United States of Asgard are bound side by side in the Covenant, Signy Valborn was destined to become The Ninth Valkyrie since she was just seven, and her parents had died. She had climbed up on the New World Tree and found the Alfather, Odin the Mad, god of the hanged, and he made her the destined Valkyrie of The Tree. And then years later, burned into that very same tree-
The Valkyrie of the Tree will prove herself with a Stone Heart.
In the aftermath of a dangerous trial, tension between the Virals are higher than ever. Life's just all jumbled up for Tory right now, ever since her fellow pack member Ben Blue confessed his feelings for her as the source of his betrayal, and then insistently causes problems with his constant use of the mysterious, wolf-like powers that all the Virals have had since tinkering an unknown virus that changed their lives-and possibly leaving them in mortal danger.
