Freya is dreading turning fourteen - that marks the official end of her childhood and when she takes up full duties of a Valkyrie - an angel of death and collector of souls from humanity's battlefields. But Freya is unlike any other Valkyrie - she doesn't want to follow in the footsteps of the legends before her.

The vampire novel "The Vampire Valkyrie" takes off where "The Dancing Valkyrie" concluded and resumes the tale of a young female vampire who just may be the most dangerous vampire in vampire fiction to date. The new novel,"The Vampire Valkyrie," by Pete Klein, is the story of a young vampire woman who is an erotic dancer at a topless club she owns in Schenectady, NY.

In the late 21st Century, technology offered dying soldiers an alternative: Project ATOM gave them the power to cheat death. All that they were, heart and soul, placed into military bodies of synthetic flesh, titanium and hyper advanced circuitry. They possessed super-strength, perfect cosmetics and deadly machine speed and accuracy, all tirelessly driven by a nuclear core. They became the perfect soldiers; unstoppable and immortal. They were the 21st century's new supermen. They were the Brigade. Labelled as 'Nukes', they were the most powerful fighting force in the world. Then the unthinkable: A weapon that could bring them down. Major Cassandra Koehl is 'Valkyrie', a synthetic super-soldier. As deadly as she is beautiful, she is tasked with a desperate mission: find this weapon before it can be used again! In a desperate race against time, her discovery rocks the brigade, for this weapon is far deadlier and insidious than imagined, and on an unstoppable countdown!

Enter the Afterlife Academy and learn how to be a valkyrie in this complete urban fantasy academy featuring mythical beings from all over the world, a fearsome dusk wolf familiar, an epic quest, and a sapphic romantic sub-plot. Death always comes with a price, but is Ylva willing to pay? The war of souls has begun against the Midnight Ravens. As an inexperienced Valkyrie, Ylva has to catch up or go under. After all, the reputation and future of Valhalla is at stake. **** REST IN SERIES: #1 Valkyrie 101: The Missing Dusk Wolves #2 Valkyrie 102: The Forest Of Illusions #3 Valkyrie 103: The Afterlife Alliance #4 Valkyrie 104: The Bonds Of Valkyries

In the tradition of Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra, Brown lays to rest the hoary myth that Viking society was ruled by men and celebrates the dramatic lives of female Viking warriors “Once again, Brown brings Viking history to vivid, unexpected life—and in the process, turns what we thought we knew about Norse culture on its head. Superb.” —Scott Weidensaul, author of New York Times bestselling A World on the Wing "Magnificent. It captured me from the very first page." —Pat Shipman, author of The Invaders In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together archaeology, history, and literature to imagine her life and times, showing that Viking women had more power and agency than historians have imagined. Nancy Marie Brown uses science to link the Birka warrior, whom she names Hervor, to Viking trading towns and to their great trade route east to Byzantium and beyond. She imagines her life intersecting with larger-than-life but real women, including Queen Gunnhild Mother-of-Kings, the Viking leader known as The Red Girl, and Queen Olga of Kyiv. Hervor’s short, dramatic life shows that much of what we have taken as truth about women in the Viking Age is based not on data, but on nineteenth-century Victorian biases. Rather than holding the household keys, Viking women in history, law, saga, poetry, and myth carry weapons. These women brag, “As heroes we were widely known—with keen spears we cut blood from bone.” In this compelling narrative Brown brings the world of those valkyries and shield-maids to vivid life.