With Valentines Day approaching, Match is looking forward to being a mushy, romantic cliché with the boyfriend of his dreams. The fight to get his pay increased hasnt been going well, and hes long fed up with the bitter cold of winter, but snuggling with Ronan after a day spent picking herbs and flowers is pretty good compensation.

Until he returns to his apartment only to find an eviction notice, despite having done nothing to merit it—and then the town is struck by a deadly Jack Frost, and the Guard goes to work in earnest to stop it. But when he stops at shop after shop for help, for food, as he works through the day and night, Match is turned away and thrown out by people he thought were his friends…

Aradishir has always been the loner amongst his siblings. That hes finally taken a full harem astonishes the whole court. He will someday have to take a wife as well, but thats a distant concern, especially as hes the youngest.

Then he meets Princess Relanya: smart, funny, as interested in helping people as he is, beautiful, and she seems to fit in perfectly in Tavamara, despite having never visited before. She is the woman of his dreams, and he would do anything, everything, asked of him to earn the honor of taking her as his wife.

Shes also betrothed to his brother, and no woman on earth, especially an older and wiser woman like Relanya, would ever choose the little brother when she already has the crown prince…

Aradishir has always been the loner amongst his siblings. That hes finally taken a full harem astonishes the whole court. He will someday have to take a wife as well, but thats a distant concern, especially as hes the youngest.

Then he meets Princess Relanya: smart, funny, as interested in helping people as he is, beautiful, and she seems to fit in perfectly in Tavamara, despite having never visited before. She is the woman of his dreams, and he would do anything, everything, asked of him to earn the honor of taking her as his wife.

Shes also betrothed to his brother, and no woman on earth, especially an older and wiser woman like Relanya, would ever choose the little brother when she already has the crown prince…

Lily is the first crown princess her kingdom has ever had, and many look forward to having a queen on the throne someday. Others are vehemently against it, and the anger stirred up by dramatic and severe changes to certain laws is causing even more turmoil.

When that tension finally explodes, Lily finds herself running for her life, forced to leave behind everything she knows and plunge blindly into the dense, dangerous forest that surrounds the royal palace. A forest said to be filled with ancient ruins, monsters, and ghosts who laugh at unwary travelers.

Instead of finding monsters and ghosts, Lily is found by a woodcutter, gruff and quiet and clearly not pleased to be saddled with an uninvited guest who doesn’t even know how to fetch water from a well. But Lily has nowhere else to go, and no way of getting home safely, not when there are people still looking to remove her head.

If she hopes to live long enough to claim her throne, she must first prove her worth to the woman who can’t wait to be rid of her.

Ninos has been training all his life to be a sylvan mage. Trees, plants, herbs, flowers, fruits, berries, nuts—he knows them all, and he intends to use that knowledge for the good of his home, a village he has not seen in more than a decade.

The final step to becoming a full-fledged mage is the conjuring and binding of a familiar, a faithful companion and guide who will supplement his power and remain at his side the rest of his life. Instead of a sylvan familiar, like a unicorn or stag, however, something goes horribly awry and Ninos finds himself bound instead to Sinn, a raven familiar meant for dark magics.

Neither is happy about it. Ninos wants a familiar who can help him with life, with growing and restoring a place destroyed by fire and plague. Sinn should be helping to raise the dead or cast blood workings. They were never meant to meet, let alone be bound.