Ashes of Snow

"Words made me. They shifted over me from the moment I took breath; little black lines etched into my body as I wriggled and screamed. And learned their meanings. Duty. Honor. Fate."
There were eight of them. Eight from the hundreds of thousands who once lived in the prosperous and happy kingdom of Winter. And now, since the last 16 years, they have been fighting to win back the only place they can and will call home.
Aerin is a lonely orphan girl living among the eight out of twenty five who initially escaped, even though she has no memories of Winter of her own. She's a nobody, a girl gifhting for a world she's never seen. The boy she loves, however, isn't a nobody. He's the future King of WInter. Winter's last surviving hope of their magical bloodline.
But Aerin was never destined to be a nobody. As the life she has always known fades into something different altogether, as new alliances are formed against the old enemy, leaving her questioning how useful she really is, as wars are fought, transporting her to even more dangerous places, all that she ever knew, about herself, about Winter, about family, love, Lucien and magic, is all about to change...