Eyla is Fai.
In her language 'Eyla' means 'Snow.'
She has been sheltered all her life. Protected within the sanctuary of the Summer Court.
On the night of her Awakening Ball, were a warrior is chosen to protect her until the last breath leaves her body, dark forces penetrate the castle walls.
The Winter Court. She once perceived as a beauty, now has become a threat. They are bitter, callous and unmerciful Fait, who have lost their souls, they do not hesitate to take prisoners and kill in the blink of an eye.
They have come for Eyla. She is the only Fai, who can fulfil the unwritten prophesy, to end the Summer Court.
Because she is summer Fait, she cannot survive the chill for long.
Her newly appointed guard Tamlin is her lifeline, he is bound to help her, he has to, she hates him, but who else can she trust.
As of now they are bound together, albeit, very unwillingly.
She has no idea of the danger that she is in and as soon as she escapes on horseback, with Tamlin and her sister, she flees from the only home that she has ever known, now everyone is her enemy, waiting to trick her, trap her and use her magic for things that she is only beginning to understand.
In a new world, that Eyla has now entered, she has nobody, she fears getting close to someone, in case she looses them, as she lost her parents.
But against her wishes, she may already be falling in love.
She is bound.
Eventually, snow will have to do what snow does best, snow will have to fall.
Estelle Beaumont just wanted a peaceful hike on her last day of vacation. Instead, one ill-starred moment of curiosity leaves her miraculously stranded in the fictional world of Prythian--a faerie realm full of ruthless court drama, rampant misogyny, and enough deadly magic to keep anyone up at night.
Armed with foreknowledge that's only helpful when it isn't actively trying to get her killed, Estelle quickly discovers that living through the story of ACOTAR is far less fun and far more perilous when it's her own basic-ass, untrained mortal life on the line.
Her plan is simple: keep her hands off of the plot and survive long enough to find a way back to the family and love she left behind. But the so-called "Mother" clearly has other plans for Estelle, forcing her to confront an unsettling truth--that her role here in Prythian might be far greater than that of a passive observer.
As Estelle reluctantly abandons her original plan, uneasy alliances form, old wounds reopen, and fractured trust begins to mend. Love, loss, and scars of the past converge as Estelle slowly starts to see that the family she thought she'd lost might take a new shape, and that the life she left behind might be the only reason she's prepared for the fight ahead.
But the cost of shaping Prythian's future--and her own--might be greater than she can bear. After all, it's a future that was never meant to be hers to begin with.
And this is all that damned Cauldron's fault...
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A/N: Warning: This fanfiction is purely self-indulgent, with long-winded introspection and a major, major slowburn romance. Read at your own risk lol. Also if you don't like self-insert/iseki like tropes were an original character who read the books ends up in the fictional world as the new main character, you might want to skip this. Somethings will stay very familiar, others will diverge completely, and I plan to add extra world building along the way.