The Eyes of Freya

Freya Swenson is living the life she has dreamed of since a child, to be a sailor, in fact the commander of her own fleet of Viking merchant ships. Her perfect life living in Swenson Castle in ancient Norway, guarded by the ones who love her from all harm, safe from the outside world. All that changes as her eighteenth birthday nears, the nightmares begin after her mother's untimely death. In the dreams she is trapped, there is no escape from the dark figure who takes delight in torturing her. Freya is determined not to let the dreams ruin her plans, as she sets sail for the Orient with her Father and two other ships on that spring day. As she looks back at her homeland she has the sickening feeling she will never see it again. The ships become lost at sea after they navigate around Africa, then head north-east. The star that had guided them in the past is gone, and her nightmares return. Her dreams warning Freya of what is to come, as she is kidnaped and tortured. The demon Banyan holds her captive for a year, until her death sets her free, but only for a moment, the consequences of her entrapment sending a ripple through time that goes on for over two thousand years.