Beneath Frost and Starlight

🌙 Beneath Frost and Starlight ❄️

The cold is not the only thing creeping through the Hollow.

For a hundred years, winter has held the world in its grasp. Nocarthis may have bargained with the Winter Court for protection, but the price was steep-an unrelenting frost that seeps deeper into the land with each passing year.

Sera has lived her entire life beneath that cold sky, tucked away in the forgotten village of Blackthorne Hollow, where snow coats the streets and whispers of fae drift through the market square. But when conscription recruiters begin taking more boys than ever before-and some vanish without a trace-Sera can't ignore the feeling that something darker is stirring beyond the trees.

The fae were supposed to stay on their side of the boundary, bound by old bargains and fragile alliances. But the snow falls heavier now, and the stars seem dimmer. Rumors of fae crossing south grow louder, and in the shadows of the Winter Court's icy rule, Sera finds herself drawn into a web of secrets-and an unbidden, forbidden connection.

Caught between two fae whose loyalties are as tangled as the frozen woods, Sera must decide what she's willing to risk for answers, and what she'll sacrifice for a spark of warmth in a world of frost.

If the fae are returning, what will they take next-and who will she become when they do?