The Colorless Winter is deepening, and those who try to fight it are scattered in every direction.
Maithea and Nellary have escaped from the Colorless, but they have nowhere left to go. Aithal remains in Emgar with Saryana at his side, pretending to be his missing brother to launch a rescue mission for his royal family. Meanwhile Jolette and Edmian have fled from the attacked city on their own, searching for the one hope to undo the magic of the pendants that give the Colorless their power: dragons, which should have disappeared a thousand years ago.
Dragons, which were secretly sold into the very Colorless Land that is out to retrieve Edmian and his pendant.
They must be stealthy and twice as clever, because help from adults cannot reach them. Aithal is stuck in Emgar, but the risks he takes estrange him from Saryana. Evariel and Zamrod set out to find them again, but even with the aid of a mysterious half-elf, half-dwarf assassin, what are the odds of finding two teenagers again in the wild?
All the while Firland begins to make its move, and with the aid of a Firlandic knight, Maithea and Nellary form a dangerous decision: try and save the rest of their village from Colorless captivity.
And Lisha, who seemed to be an ally, now pursues an agenda of her own...
Winter is falling in the north of the Oldlands, but in between the snow something bright begins to shine. And the pendants, which were once fairly idle around their bearers' necks, now start shaping the world around them. Legends come to life, strange powers take shape, and suddenly the threat of war gives birth to something much greater...
This is Book 2 in the HISTORY OF THE COLORLESS WINTER trilogy. It's a direct sequel to Book 1, THE COLORLESS LAND; if you haven't read that one yet, read it first!
{COMPLETED} The stars disappeared seventeen years ago. A black night sky has mirrored a bleak existence for the people of Auros. The Gifted, humans with unique abilities to affect the world around them, have all but become extinct thanks to the dark reign of a usurper. And somehow Zephyr Elvy has managed to live her nineteen years in the blissful quiet of a small town next to the sea.
Zephyr has always been content to keep to herself, and happy to live a simple, if uneventful, life. If only the universe had that in mind for her.
Forced to flee the only place she has ever called home, Zephyr finds herself running through a world she has only ever read about, along with two soldiers who have deserted their posts to keep their consciences clean. With only a letter and a mysterious weapon as clues to why she's being hunted, Zephyr must face her own fears while discovering a whole new world of terrors at the hands of a queen she knows next to nothing about.
Having never risked anything her entire life, Zephyr is forced to choose between apathy or action, hiding and keeping to herself, as she has always done, or taking a leap that could change the world she is just now getting to see.
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Thank you SO MUCH for reading! I'm updating every Monday until this story is done, and I've been sitting on this one for almost three years so I'm really excited to finish it! I don't have any beta readers for this as I write, so please let me know if you notice anything, and I mean ANYTHING, that needs fixing! :)