A Promise Cursed in Frost

Queen Kalise Frostclaw hasn't touched another person in twelve years. Not an embrace. Not a hand held, and certainly not a kiss. Not since the day her blueblood gift turned deadly, and she froze her parents solid.

A marriage of convenience to Gabriel Ashcroft is the perfect solution to her many political problems. He gets a title and a future free of his family's shadow. She gets a Consort who is willing to follow her rules: no touching under any circumstance. But most of all, they both get the security their kingdoms desperately need.

The plan seems simple, until the Icelantican Parliament demands a centuries-old law proving the marriage has been consummated, and witnessed by members of Parliament. Suddenly, a marriage that was never meant to be more than a formality must survive the first night, and Gabriel is willing to do whatever it takes to help his frosty bride fake it.

Surviving the wedding night is only the beginning of their problems. When the Icelantican spy network contacts Gabriel, he sees his opportunity to finally do something on his own. Yet, as Gabriel grows closer to Kalise, she slowly warms to him, and they enter a dangerous game of playing with the ice within her veins.

When threats to Kalise's crown rise from within Icelantica and beyond its borders, she and Gabriel will have to learn what her curse has always denied her. That some things are only possible together.