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On an alternate Earth-like world where magic works and vampires vey for dominant power over man, Leif Anderson and his sister Kira are Sami pre-teens of the Snow Falcon tribe in the northern wilds of Lapland.. Their father is determined to stick to the old traditions of living off the land and herding reindeer. They are taught to resist the warnings of Christian missionaries who insist that Christ is the only way the eternal wrath of their Triune God. Leif most of all is fiercely determine to hold on to his identity as a Sami; he dreams of becoming an adult warrior battling fierce snow-dragons and vampire tribes that threaten his people. He knows what those claiming to follow Christ often did to his people and their ways in the past. But now the Dragthnordr, the northern vampire tribes, have banded together under the leadership of Lord Varth, an educated eastern Vamp Lord, and threaten all the human lands of Skandanavia. Not even the most valiant warriors of Sami legend, it seems would have a chance. Leif and Kira know that only the Christian cross seems to repel the Vampire, and an alliance between Christian and conservative Sami seems inevitable. When a Dragthnordr raiding party decimates their tribe, Kira and Leif are forced to flee. They meet new allies against the undead scourge, and begin a quest for a legendary wizard who dwells in the far north. And a legend that speaks of a magic blade that might actually prove fatal to the God Leif so despises, the One said to show mercy to none save His followers.