Wandering Winter II: Whispers in the War

Some victories aren't victories at all. For Kelvin, they are just a giant, messy pile of questions.

As Dragomira gears up for one last, exhausting school year, Kelvin Cadenza is summoned for a mission so catastrophically dangerous it makes his past misadventures look like a picnic. Together with Solarina, now an Archarel Captain (a very grand title indeed), he must journey beyond the maps to find the hidden Astral Archive.

Their only guide? The frozen, broken remains of past expeditions who went into the forgotten land of Corvus Cora to hunt Helushka, the mastermind behind the monsters and endless blizzard, and never came back.

Behind them, things are a total disaster. Friendships are snapping like dry twigs under the weight of grief, and the frost between two sisters is growing colder than winter itself.

Ahead lies:

1. A forest thoroughly erased from history.

2. A past someone tried desperately to bury.

3. And a man who has spent decades sitting in the dark, waiting for someone foolish enough to come looking.

There are some doors that should NEVER be opened. But Kelvin has always been spectacularly bad at leaving them closed.