No one returns from Hel.
With Baldr’s death, Ragnarök has begun. Now, Odin has sent Hermod to the farthest reaches of creation to bring back his son’s soul. The son of a valkyrja, Hermod alone can make such a trek. But to do so he must descend into horrors beyond imagination.

Meanwhile, Odin begins an even more desperate gambit: to challenge the Norns themselves for control of Fate. Yet his journey will offer him knowledge he could not him imagined nor ever would have wanted …