❝In a world of stone and starlight, some treasures are better left in pieces.❞ ────୨ৎ──── Rose lived a life of quiet ruffles and morning tea, until the day she inherited the glass locket. It was a delicate, translucent thing, cold to the touch and swirling with a mist that seemed to move only when she looked away. Her grandmother's dying wish was simple: Never open it, and never let the Master of the Manor see it. But when a sudden storm traps Rose within the crumbling walls of Blackbriar Hall, the locket begins to pulse against her chest. The shadows in the hallways are lengthening, and the ravens circling the spires seem to be calling her name. The Master of the House is a man of silver words and frozen smiles, searching for the very magic Rose carries near her heart. To save herself, Rose must flee into the haunted moors, guided only by the flickering light of a locket that holds a kingdom's memory-and a curse that could shatter her world.

❝To love a swan is to love a creature of two worlds-and to belong to neither.❞ ────୨ৎ──── Forced into a life of solitude, Elara has spent years as the "Ghost of the Reeds," watched over by the two swans who are her only companions... and her only captors. She is the bearer of the Mourning Veil, a magical tether that keeps her young, beautiful, and utterly alone. But when a disgraced prince stumbles into her hidden cove, the magic begins to fail. As the feathers fall and the water turns to ice, Elara discovers that her "protectors" might be the very monsters she should have feared all along. ────୨ৎ──── © frostingfairy