The Stern Chase

Its place in Brotherband Chronicles

The Stern Chase is book 9 in the Brotherband Chronicles series. It follows Return of the Temujai. See the full Brotherband Chronicles reading order.

Set in the same world as Ranger's Apprentice, the Brotherband Chronicles hands the spotlight to the Skandians -- Flanagan's Viking-inspired seafaring culture, previously seen mostly as raiders and allies on the margins of Will Treaty's story. Hal Mikkelson, a half-Araluen outcast among his own people, is assigned to Skandia's least promising brotherband training crew and, through ingenuity rather than brute strength, turns them into a genuinely formidable ship's crew aboard his self-designed ship, the Heron…