Where You Fall
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A WINTERWITCH story.
She was gone. Crushed beneath stone and silence. A casualty of magic too wild to be contained.
But now-she's breathing again.
No one knows how. No one knows why.
Least of all him.
When a red signal pulses out from a long-dead ruin, Bucky Barnes is pulled into a mission that feels more like a memory. What he finds buried beneath the wreckage isn't just impossible-it's dangerous. She's alive. She's changed. And she's not alone in what came back.
As secrets rise from the rubble, trust is tested, scars are reopened, and something far older than grief begins to bloom. This isn't about heroes. This is about survival, about control, about the cost of power when it finally comes home.
Wherever You Fall is a hypnotic, slow-burn fantasy about trauma, magic, and the quiet, aching places where people break-and what's left behind when they try to rebuild.
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