Frozen Thorns & Midnight Ink (Winter Edition)

Every rift in the season leaves a jagged edge.

Winter Edition

Carol Rostova thought she knew the rules of survival in a city built on fog and fractured memories. But as the winter term settles over Verdant Isle International University in San Francisco with a bruising, rain-slicked freeze, her carefully constructed reality shatters. Surrounded by the biting wind, elite global business heirs, and the ghosts of her erased past, she finds herself cornered in a world where warmth is entirely foreign.

There's Malik Reyes-the smooth-talking, cocktail-shaking campus playboy whose flirty, effortless grins and hidden motives are becoming dangerously difficult to ignore. But right here in the freezing depths of the winter semester is Blake Hawthorne-a cold, calculating corporate heir wrapped in black tactical winter ice and a predatory obsession-who is moving in for the kill. They despise each other with a venomous, bone-deep hatred, locked in a brutal war where every encounter is a battlefield. Yet the most terrifying part isn't that she loathes him with every breath; it's the nagging, hollow terror that she doesn't even remember why.

In a high-stakes world of intense psychological warfare, forced proximity, and a lethal game of cat-and-mouse across a freezing bay, Carol has to navigate a web of betrayal before the ice swallows her whole.