Chapter 23: Two Things at Once The news came with the Bergen supply ship in the last week of March. […]

Chapter 22: What He Allows Himself He woke before the settlement. The storm had passed sometime before dawn — he

Chapter 21: Storm The storm came off the sea on a Wednesday and hit the settlement by nightfall. It was

Chapter 20: Three Drafts He wrote the trade proposal in March. Not the letter — that had gone in autumn,

Chapter 19: Less Careful She went back to the palisade the next night. She had not decided to. She had

Chapter 18: Navigation She had taken to walking the palisade at night. It had begun as reconnaissance — she had

Chapter 17: Intentions She asked him on a Thursday in February, which was the deep middle of the winter and

Chapter 16: What Bjorn Says The argument happened on a Sunday, in the forge, where Leif went in the depths

Chapter 15: What Hands Know She heard the commotion before she knew what it was — voices, urgent, from the

Chapter 14: The High Seat The solstice feast lasted three days. The first day was the formal one — the