A gothic fantasy romance for readers who like stepping into new worlds such as Narnia and The Chrestomanci Chronicles but also love the dark whimsy of The Infernal Devices, Belladonna, and Caraval.

Their grief binds them.

The song calls them.

The Darkness wants to claim them.

As winter wraps Areth in its frozen embrace, nightmarish beasts descend upon the Hastings household kidnapping Mr. and Mrs. Hastings and leaving behind their daughter, Bianca, as sole witness. In the wake of their abduction her quiet world is turned upside down and shaken revealing the secrets and lies her parents have buried.

As truths unravel it binds her to those who have similarly lost. Together they must wade through the thorny tangles of growing love and grief to find those that they hold dear before the looming threat of darkness is unleashed to destroy them all.