Have you met my new baby, RANSACKER!?

Weighing in at a delightful 438 pages, Ransacker is my most ambitious novel yet. It’s a companion novel to Berserker (which means it stands apart as its own story) and follows the coming-of-age of Sissel Hemstad, a young Norwegian immigrant living in 1886 Montana with ancient Viking magic running in her blood.

At the beginning of the book, Sissel is the only one of her siblings who has not manifested an ancient Viking power and she thinks she’s been lef...