The The Hati Cycle series
The Hati Cycle
Dark Norse romantasy
“The chain holds only while he wants nothing at all.”
A dark Norse romantasy trilogy following one couple across three books. Sigrún Vetrdóttir is the last seer alive who can sing the wolf down, and the jarls’ council binds her by law to Leidolf Mánason, heir of the bloodline that carries Hati chained inside it. The novels are explicit 18+, arranged marriage and enemies to lovers, with a slow burn whose obstacle is physics rather than a misunderstanding. The trilogy is complete: three books about the same couple, alongside three closed-door novellas set before it.
Prelude
The Vessel’s Watch
“A hundred years before the law that binds them, two people broke it into existence.”
Find it on AmazonEgill Mánason is sent to the moon-road seers on an errand that should take five days. Vállaug, who is not yet a full seer and already more dangerous than anyone in that hall has noticed, finds a reason to keep him eleven.
He has been trained since childhood to want nothing, because the wolf chained in his blood strains at whatever he does want. She has been trained to sing that wolf down. Neither of them has ever met someone who understood the arithmetic from the other side.
What they do is small. One barred door, on one night, in a cold hall at the height of its power.
A prequel novella to The Hati Cycle, set a century before Book One. Complete in itself, and it can be read before or after Bride of the Moon-Hunter.
Heat note: sexual content behind a closed door. 18+.
Book One
Bride of the Moon-Hunter
“She was supposed to have died with the rest of them.”
Find it on AmazonSigrún Vetrdóttir was elsewhere the night her order burned. Three years on she is the last seer alive who can sing the wolf down, which is the only reason the jarls’ council has any use for her at all.
Their solution is a law. She is bound to Leidolf Mánason, heir of the vessel-line, the bloodline that carries Hati chained inside it. The council calls it a continuity instrument. It is witnessed, recorded, knotted at her wrist with a cord, and it has no mechanism for refusal.
She is certain his family let her order burn.
She is also the only person close enough to see what happens to him when he wants something. The marks come up black from his wrists to his throat, and the chain holds only while he wants nothing at all. The song does not hold without proximity to the vessel, so they work together every day, an experiment in not wanting conducted in front of a woman trained to notice everything.
Then she finds his father’s seal on the document that destroyed her.
Book One of The Hati Cycle, a dark Norse romantasy trilogy about one couple across three books. Arranged marriage enforced by statute, enemies to lovers where the obstacle is physics rather than a misunderstanding, forced proximity, touch starvation, and a morally grey vessel whose inhumanity is sensory and never cured.
Heat note: explicit and 18+. Consent is spoken aloud on the page, every time.
Interlude
The Vessel and the Dark
“She has one crossing left, and she already knows what she is going to spend it on.”
Find it on AmazonEydís Járnsdóttir has walked the moon-road for twelve years. The road is finite, every deliberate walk shortens it, and hers is nearly gone. She has been saving the last one.
Then an envoy arrives with evidence that the doctrine her whole order is built on, the one that says a seer and a vessel are paired by a law written before choice existed, was forged. Added later. In a different hand.
Verifying it will cost her the road permanently. Ormr Mánason, the vessel who has loved her plainly and without ambiguity for four years, will not ask her not to go. He never has, not once, and that is the thing about him she cannot forgive and cannot stop wanting.
A novella of The Hati Cycle, set two generations before the trilogy. Complete in itself.
Heat note: sexual content behind a closed door. 18+.
Book Two
The Wolf-Fed Sky
“They married in the spring. By winter she cannot prove that anything he feels for her is his own.”
Find it on AmazonSigrún and Leidolf come to the capital for an inquiry that was supposed to take a season. They stay because a courier turns up dead inside a ward that nothing should have crossed, carrying a document somebody had already cut open.
Rún has spent her whole life trusting records. Now she is reading her own, and the dates do not sit right.
Meanwhile the marks keep rising on her husband. They prove that he wants. What they cannot show is whether the wanting belongs to him or to the wolf, so the two of them name it aloud, decide inside it, and never get to be certain.
Book Two of The Hati Cycle, a dark Norse romantasy trilogy. A married couple in crisis, institutional conspiracy, surveillance, and a monster husband nobody can vouch for. Best read after Bride of the Moon-Hunter.
Heat note: explicit and 18+.
Interlude
The Intake Record
“He came to be measured. She was assigned to write it down.”
Find it on AmazonHákon Mánason arrives at the chapter-house at twenty-four, already marked, already refused by two other houses, carrying a petition the senior seers will argue over for a month. Ingunn Þórsdóttir is given the deposition because she is junior enough that her observations will be read as data rather than argument.
Seven days. A green ledger for working notes, a red one for the council. A desk between them, and a formal schedule designed to make wanting impossible.
It does not work. What she writes in the margin on the sixth day belongs in no ledger, and she knows it while the ink is still wet.
A novella of The Hati Cycle. Complete in itself, and best after Book One.
Heat note: sexual content behind a closed door. 18+.
Book Three
The Last Night of the World
“Now the light is going faster than anyone was told.”
Find it on AmazonRún told the northern holds they had a decade before the Dimming crossed its next threshold. The new readings say she was wrong, and she knows exactly where the error came from.
The old texts describe a way into Sköll’s hoard. It needs two people, one to hold the threshold open and one to reach inside, and a window of forty days. Then Hákon Mánason arrives with a reading that cuts the window to twenty-six, and a plan that adds a third person to the crossing: himself.
Book Three of The Hati Cycle, the final book of the dark Norse romantasy trilogy. One last road, and a bargain with something that does not negotiate. Best read after The Wolf-Fed Sky.
Heat note: explicit and 18+.
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