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Table of Contents

NOTICES

CONTENT WARNINGS

BERSERKER GOD

Stone Sky God Name Pronunciation Guide

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER ONE | Suvi

CHAPTER TWO | Skallagrim

CHAPTER THREE | Skallagrim

CHAPTER FOUR | Suvi

CHAPTER FIVE | Skallagrim

CHAPTER SIX | Suvi

CHAPTER SEVEN | Skallagrim

CHAPTER EIGHT | Suvi

CHAPTER NINE | Suvi

CHAPTER TEN | Skallagrim

CHAPTER ELEVEN | Suvi

CHAPTER TWELVE | Skallagrim

CHAPTER THIRTEEN | Suvi

CHAPTER FOURTEEN | Skallagrim

CHAPTER FIFTEEN | Skallagrim

CHAPTER SIXTEEN | Skallagrim

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | Skallagrim

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN | Skallagrim

CHAPTER NINETEEN | Suvi

CHAPTER TWENTY | Skallagrim

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE | Suvi

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO | Skallagrim

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE | Suvi

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR | Suvi

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE | Skallagrim

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX | Skallagrim

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN | Suvi

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT | Skallagrim

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE | Suvi

CHAPTER THIRTY | Suvi

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE | Skallagrim

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO | Suvi

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE | Skallagrim

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR | Suvi

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE | Skallagrim

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX | Suvi

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN | Skallagrim

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT | Suvi

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE | Suvi

CHAPTER FORTY | Suvi

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE | Skallagrim

CHAPTER FORTY-TWO | Suvi

CHAPTER FORTY-THREE | Skallagrim

CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR | Suvi

CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE | Suvi

CHAPTER FORTY-SIX | Suvi

CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN | Skallagrim

CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT | Suvi

CHAPTER FORTY-NINE | Suvi

CHAPTER FIFTY | Suvi

CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE | Suvi

CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO | Skallagrim

CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE | Suvi

CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR | Skallagrim

CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE | Skallagrim

CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX | Suvi

CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN | Suvi

CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT | Suvi

CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE | Suvi

CHAPTER SIXTY | Skalla

CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE | Suvi

CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO | Skallagrim

NOTICES

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CONTENT WARNINGS

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BERSERKER GOD

Brides of the Stone Sky Gods

Book Two

By Ursa Dax

Stone Sky God Name Pronunciation Guide

Skallagrim – SKAH-la-grim

Jolakaia – joe-la-KAI-ah

Koltar – COAL-tar

Koraba – koe-RAH-bah

Wylfrael – WOLF-rye-elle

Sionnach – SIGH-on-nock

Maerwynne – MARE-win-nuh

Rúnwebbe – rune-WEB-buh

Sceadulyr – shay-AH-doo-leer

Cynewylf – KOO-nuh-wolf

Heofonraed – hay-OFF-enn-rad

Vizhiri – viz-JHEER-ee

PROLOGUE

The stone sky god Skallagrim always thought he’d have more time. An affliction of immortals. Or perhaps just an affliction of a certain sort of male. The penchant to look fate in its relentless eyes, scoff, and simply tell the inevitable that it will have to come collect its due another day.

But even a god cannot push off fate forever. And even an immortal cannot escape the burning end when it comes calling.

I always thought I’d have more time. That was what Skalla said to himself when he felt his mind begin to blacken at the edges. They were the last words left in his skull before language began to dissipate like fog around him, inside him, until there were no words left but the broken echoes of what had once made sense.

I always thought I’d have more time.

Time to find her. The one mortal creature in the whole shuddering scope of the universe who could have saved him.

And saved everyone else.

When Skallagrim felt his mind start unspooling, when the mate madness first took hold, he went to the one immortal he could fully trust. The one stone sky god who knew him deeply, who loved him, and was, he believed, strong enough to subdue him. He went to Sionnach, his cousin Wylfrael’s world.

But Wylfrael was no match for Skalla in his rampage. Skalla’s berserker blood, inherited from his Bohnebregg mother, was an accelerant to the flame of mate madness. He became something formidable and terrible and not at all himself.

Wylfrael was defeated twice, evaded endlessly, until there was nothing and no one left to halt Skalla’s cosmic riptide of rage.

No one...

No one except the one small, singular, mortal creature he should have been searching for all along.

His fated bride.

His salvation...

Or his undoing.

CHAPTER ONE

Suvi

Marta, Min-Ji, and I were in one of the caves of the new planet when the ship’s alarm system began to blare.

“Another one?” Marta said, frowning and pushing up her safety glasses until they formed a headband for her kinky, dark curls. “We already had one this morning.”

After what had happened to Torrance and the other soldiers on the last planet, we’d started running drills in this new world. Practice runs for if something like that ever happened again. If the sky turned to stone and some winged creature, brutal and alien and powerful beyond comprehension, came through, obliterating everything in its path. Whenever the ship’s alarm system went off, we were to return to it as quickly as possible.

And if we weren’t fast enough...

We’d get left behind.

Just like Torrance was.

That was three weeks ago. Three weeks since we last saw our friend in the ice and snow of the alien world we were all taken to against our will. Three weeks since the sky cracked open like it was made of earth instead of air. Three weeks since we retreated to this new planet, leaving her to die in the snow.