Tania Wallace always wondered who her birth mother was, but her adoptive parents didn’t know or weren’t telling. When Tania is diagnosed with a genetic disease that will kill her before she’s thirty, she sets out to find out more about her family’s history.
She discovers her birth mother is a brutal serial killer serving ten consecutive life sentences. Pretending to be a journalist writing a true crime book, Tania begins interviewing her mother trying to find out why she murdered and ate so many people and if she knows anything about the disease killing Tania. The secrets she uncovers leads her to research the history of her family from the Viking kingdom of Jorvik a thousand years ago to today – a history of brutal murder.
She learns that the disease is really a Norse curse and the only cure is to kill and eat another person. Now, she must make a choice between suffering a slow painful death or becoming a monster.