The Northward Route is set in Norway in 1319. A sovereign Queen bears an old magic power that begins to rot her from the inside out. A human girl, raised among trolls, is wrenched from her home and thrust into the city. A string of murders and arsons tear through Oslo. A poor baker boy befriends a girl in the market and finds himself working in the royal palace kitchens. A troll boy, disguised as a human, attempts to come to terms with his bloody past. A mute serving girl finds her voice. Three teenagers begin to unwind a web of political secrets, even as the entire country trembles on the brink of war. And in the forests waits another power, a race of brutal, wild things, whose involvement would change everything.