The Weekend Of Winter

Santa Claus and Krampus were once brothers in chaos, too dangerous to remain together. They separated to preserve the world, bound by a single brutal concession: one night each year to roam winter unrestrained, and exile for the rest of time.
That balance shatters when Jack-an ancient embodiment of frost and impermanence-attacks the North Pole. He believes Mrs. Claus belongs to him, warmth that dares exist within cold, fire that should answer to ice. Time fractures, laughter freezes in mid-breath, and the machinery of joy becomes a graveyard of glass.
Summoned by the fury and neglect of forgotten children, Krampus rises from the South Pole. Hated, hunted, and necessary, he must walk through human bitterness and storm-wracked lands to reach his brother. This is not a war of good and evil, but of possession and consent, endurance and hunger. At the heart of the frozen North, Mrs. Claus must assert a truth older than winter itself-or be claimed by it.