CassandraQ
When fire and frost collide, the world will either burn or freeze-unless love can teach them balance.
Princess Sera of Emberfall wields flames as wild as her heart. Trained to be her kingdom's salvation, she's spent her life fighting the cold-both the encroaching ice storms ravaging her lands and the frost kingdom responsible for her brother's death.
Prince Kael of Nivara commands winter itself, his power bound by iron discipline and colder duty. Haunted by prophecy and the ghosts of his own mistakes, he's learned that emotion is the enemy of control-and control is all that keeps his magic from destroying everything he touches.
For a century, their kingdoms have bled each other dry in a war neither can win. But when an ancient curse begins unraveling the magic that sustains both realms, Sera and Kael are forced into an impossible alliance. Bound by a spell that punishes lies with physical pain, they must journey to Phreatica-the wounded heart of their world-where the gods themselves once loved and destroyed each other.
Every step toward salvation draws them closer to a truth neither expected: the prophecy that named them enemies might have always meant for them to be something else entirely.
But breaking the curse demands a sacrifice. And when the final choice comes-between love and kingdoms, between fire and frost, between two hearts that were never supposed to beat as one-the price of balance may be more than either can bear.
In a world where passion destroys and restraint kills, can love be the force that finally heals?
A sweeping fantasy romance of elemental magic, fated enemies, and the thin line between hatred and devotion.