The Winter Accord

A voice can save a city, or bury it. Kessa Varkos has spent her whole life turning grief and fury into something beautiful and contained, the way her House trained her to. Then a hard-won treaty demands she marry into the family that has spent forty years outlawing people like her, and the man assigned to guard her across the pass road seems determined to hide a secret of his own. Brannor Thal has kept what he can do buried since the night it saved his life and nearly cost him everything else. He knows exactly what his family does to people who carry the gift Kessa was trained to master in the open. He is supposed to escort the bride his House agreed to marry, not fall for the one person alive who might finally understand what he has spent seventeen years hiding. As the high passes narrow and old enemies close in on the fragile peace both their Houses need to survive, Kessa and Brannor must decide whether the accord that bound them together is worth more than the secrets still keeping them apart. THE WINTER ACCORD is a slow-burn romantasy of arranged marriage, forbidden magic, and two frostsingers who were taught to fear the very gift that might finally save them both.