Blurb:
In a world where
magic is outlawed, a shy 20-year-old tavern maid enlists in the military to
learn runes and swordsmanship to protect the people she cares for. A Touch of
Frost is a coming-of-age fantasy novel about an unlikely heroine who wanted a
normal life. But fate has different plans, and the people she’s fighting to
protect might be the greatest threat.
Tragedies and curses, like all
bad things, came in threes.
Most runes are forbidden within Aitera. Those who
create them are executed or bound for fear they’d be the one prophesized to
destroy the crown. Cybele cherished and adored the magic within her father’s
stories of love and adventure until a curse stilled his beating heart,
provoking fear within hers.
At nearly twenty, in the goddess’s eyes, Cybele’s
responsibility is to marry and have children, so when her estranged mother pens
a letter requesting to rebuild their relationship while proposing to arrange a marriage
for her, Cybele gratefully accepts. She believes this will give her the simple
life she longs for.
But when tragedy strikes, Cybele resents her
weakness and foolishness, realizing that life isn’t simple and the world isn’t
clearly divided between good and evil. As war looms overhead and Cybele’s
forced from her home, a handsome stranger helps her and offers her the key to
harnessing a strength she didn’t know she had.
Cybele soon discovers the man who saved her holds
many secrets, and the magic that’s taken everything from her could be her only
chance of survival.
My review:
A Touch of Frost is a fabulous first in what I am sure is going
to be an epic saga. I was pulled into Cybeles’ tale from the first page and
didn’t want it to end. Watching her grow through grit and determination had me
feeling for her. I can’t wait to see where her story takes us.
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