Caden I’ve been around for centuries and, although I love living with the Easter elves, it never fully feels like home. Now I’ve been asked to go and work in Geimhreadh, the one place that felt like home when I was last there. I’m excited to work with another chocolatier, but when I arrive, I discover the feeling isn’t mutual. But why can’t I get him out of my head? LumiI love working with chocolate, and this Christmas, I get to work on my own and create my own ideas. But then I’m informed I have help coming. Help I don’t want. So I promise myself to make his time with me in Geimhreadh as miserable as possible. Then he arrives and my plans go out the window. He’s all I can think about. I do everything I can to fight it…until what I am fighting against no longer matters.

Aristeaus A year ago I watched as the foretold dragon returned and friends began to find their mates. The world around us is changing, but all I can think about is the dreams that plague my nights and the fact my magic is misbehaving. The one person I want to tell is my best friend Eoghan, but I can’t. He just won’t understand. The only option I have is to flee from Goralski, but can I really leave all my friends and the only life I’ve ever known behind? Eoghan Aristeaus is my best friend, but what he doesn’t know is that he’s more than that to me. Yet for years I have not been able to tell him my true feelings, and suddenly he’s saying that he’s going to leave our home. Something more is going on with him. There’s something he’s not telling me. But I have another secret, too—dreams that are filled with dragons—and I need my friend to help me figure them out. All I need to do is find a way to make him stay.