The Road of Bones
A woman on the run. A crew of Viking mercenaries. A forbidden romance. And the secret which threatens them all.
Silla Nordvig is running for her life.
The Queen of Íseldur has sent warriors to bring Silla to Sunnavík, where death awaits her. When her father is killed, his last words set Silla on a perilous quest: travel the treacherous Road of Bones–a thousand-mile stretch haunted by warbands, creatures of darkness, and a mysterious murderer–and go to Kopa, where a shield-house awaits her.
After barely surviving the first stretch of road, a desperate Silla sneaks into a supply wagon belonging to the notorious Bloodaxe Crew. To make it to Kopa, she must win over Axe Eyes, the brooding leader of the Crew, while avoiding the Wolf, his distractingly handsome right-hand man. But the queen’s ruthless assassin has other plans and hunts Silla obsessively.
Will Silla make it safely to Kopa? Or will she fall prey to the perils of the Road of Bones?
Featuring an immersive world blending fairy tale with Vikings, The Road of Bones leads you on an adrenaline-fueled chase with fun banter and a slow-building enemies to lovers romance. The first book in the Ashen Series, you are one click away from reading it!
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Demi Winters
In a world of dragons, frostbitten coasts, and reluctant mercenaries, Demi Winters found her voice—not in a bustling writer’s room or MFA program, but at her kitchen table in British Columbia, balancing a toddler on one hip and Norse mythologies in the other hand. Her breakout romantic fantasy series, The Ashen Series, began with The Road of Bones, a novel that arrived not with fireworks but with a steady storm: quiet at first, then impossible to ignore.
Winters doesn’t write heroes who are born strong. She writes women like Silla Nordvig—wounded, quiet, often underestimated—who find strength in survival and power in vulnerability. Her landscapes are forged from fire and ice, inspired by Icelandic sagas and shaped by a fascination with endurance: how people endure grief, exile, addiction, and even love when it arrives at the wrong time, in the wrong form.
The Ashen
In a land where winter never loosens its grip and bloodlines are forged in betrayal, The Ashen series leads readers deep into a world that feels carved from frost and fire. Set against the unforgiving wilds of Íseldur—a Norse-inspired realm steeped in runic magic and ancestral vengeance—this dark romantic fantasy unfolds with aching beauty and brutal clarity.
The Ashen consists of three primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
