Winterskin (Book One of Wrath & Winter)

Promise the dead but protect the living.

Until a promise to the dead forbids her from doing so.

Katell Maeva has spent her entire life as a woodcutter. In the summer months she chops wood and in the winter she knocks out wolves. But when food becomes scarce and her family starts to starve, Kat decides she should put her ax arm to work as a shieldmaiden.

Something her mother made her promise to never do.

Dying words her town won't let her forget.

Barred from becoming a shieldmaiden, when Kat mistakenly kills a beast on the outskirts of town she unravels a conspiracy involving creatures thought to have been hunted to extinction centuries ago. Creatures that once threatened to wipe every trace of humanity from the North.

To keep her Gram and sisters alive, she'll have to go against her mother's dying wish and break her promise. Picking up shield and ax just as her brother did.

A promise that hangs heavy. Barring fangs as real as her ax.

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