Ice Below the Roots // Book #1

Born into grief and raised without love, Dewpaw has spent her whole life trying to earn a place in StoneClan. Her mother died bringing her into the world, her sister died beside her, and her father - the respected warrior Snowhare - could never look at her without seeing the family he lost. But the mountains are changing. After a brutal battle between StoneClan and TunnelClan leaves a young apprentice dead, the Clans are thrown into fear, suspicion, and rage. Slitthroat - the StoneClan warrior responsible for the killing - is banished into the wilderness, leaving behind a Clan fractured by guilt and whispers of war. When she encounters the exiled warrior alone beyond the borders, she discovers something far more dangerous than hatred: pity. As tensions between the Clans spiral and TunnelClan threatens revenge, Dewpaw finds herself caught between loyalty to her Clan and the unsettling realization that monsters are not always born - sometimes they are made. With war brewing beneath the mountains, old grief festering in every Clan, and secrets lurking in the dark tunnels below the forest, Dewpaw must decide what kind of warrior she wants to become... before the mountains drown in blood.