"At every door before you enter look around with care; you never know what enemies aren't waiting for you there."
- The Prose Edda; The Deluding of Gylfi
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one of the best books I have read all year!, May 8, 2006 from Ray Ward at 
I loved this book, March 23, 2006
In Norse Mythology, the War of Ragnarok was the doom of the gods, only that was a trick on man's perception. It was Odin's plan to let mankind live without the influence of gods, a necessity for human development. But after centuries of secrecy, the gods revealed themselves to a homeless man, Hatteris. His task was to rescue the goddess, Sif, from the evil clutches of the Mayor of Nastrand. Nastrand, a town of unsurpassed beauty, also housed the gateway to the Nordic Hel. With questionable sanity, Hatteris journeyed through Hel, saved more than one world, and by the deception of the trickster god, Loki, fathered a demigod named Thor.
The Magus of Nastrand is my first novel. I have published a short story version of this on-line in 2002 and have published a short story called White Fences in a college publication in 1994.