Action and adventure from Norway to China along the Silk Route at the end of the Viking age.
As the Viking age is brought to an end in 1066 with defeat at the battle of Stamford Bridge, a rag-tag group of Vikings conclude the quiet life is not for them and they decide to go-a-Viking one last time.
They retrace a journey of their youth across the Steppe to Byzantium. A chance discovery in a Kiev library leads them to venture even further afield - to Astrakhan, Chorasmia and Bactria and along the ancient Silk Route into China.
They inflict fatalities on the sinister Black Scorpions who plan to exact revenge. Escaping entrapment they flee by night across the Roof of the World and meet the remnants of the "lost" European tribe of Asia, the Hepthalites, who protect them in their hidden city in the Celestial Mountains. A place where romance is kindled and love blossoms.
They gather more clues, and continue with their quest into the Taklamakan desert. The desert so called by locals because those who venture in seldom venture out.
There they meet the Lang Ren, the Wolf people of Lou Lan, outcasts thieves and criminals living in an abandoned desert city. A city in which the final clue to their quest is uncovered.