In the shadowed heart of Camelot, Lady Guinevere rides alone through a winter storm to claim a long-forgotten betrothal. Her father’s death has left her estate crumbling and her future uncertain, yet the promise made when she was a child still burns at her throat: a silver ring, a lord’s vow, and a groom named Arthur Pendragon who never came. Denied at the gates and attacked by wolves on the return, she wakes in the castle she sought—only to discover the man who should have claimed her is a stranger who wants her gone.
Arthur, half-Fae and half-human, hides a curse born of betrayal on the night of Beltane. His grandfather, the merciless King of the Winter Court, wove two chains around the unborn child: the blood of the wolf that rises with the moon, and the iron vow that true love will never be his. To protect the mortal world from eternal frost, Arthur has locked himself away, turning visitors from his door and chaining the beast within. But Guinevere refuses to leave. Her courage, her steady gaze, her refusal to fear the monster she glimpses, begin to crack the walls he has built around his heart.
As the full moon nears and the veil between worlds thins, love becomes both salvation and apocalypse. Guinevere must decide whether to flee the danger she has awakened—or to stand beside the cursed king and risk everything to break a geas older than kingdoms. In a tale of beauty and beast reimagined through Faerie fire, one woman’s choice could thaw a frozen throne… or bury the world in endless winter.
Short author bio
J. Raven has spent most of her life traveling around the US or abroad. She managed to find a bookstore in every city she visited, getting lost inside the pages of the books she purchased. She began writing when she was a little girl, and it slowly grew into something she loved doing. Now that she isn’t traveling as much anymore, she spends her time writing her own stories at her quiet little home by the lake with her husband, daughter, and their pack of dogs.
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