In a god blessed realm where greed is the faith of rulers, Snowlin’s existence was perhaps the greediest act of all. Born the forbidden child of two Aura, magical beings possessing god-gifted powers, she carries a burden of title. Prized a weapon of destruction by her father and hunted as a monster of carnage by others. The odds knew no favour to the wicked or kind in Numengarth, but Snowlin turned human, powerless, and a disappointment to the creator who intended to wield her in his claim for power over the continent. After twelve years disparaged into exile, she sets to return and claim what the realm owed her: revenge on both her father and the night king who hunted to take more than her life. Take and destroy were her plans. Use and bargain were his. She returns to find the rapacity of serpents lingering in the air and at her expense once again. Snowlin, now arranged to wed her nightmare for a political agreement, begins adjusting plans. While caught in a game of crowns, what would she choose to become? Pawn to the winter king or queen to the night king?

𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐝 𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐦, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬. After falling for a lie and ruling over another, Snowlin starts revealing her dealing hand. Two queens and a joker. Isjord hanging by her carefully woven threads deep in her father’s council, and Adriata pushed to the corner of her mercy, she awaits. But first she must stop Isjord from taking Adriata before her. Reborn as their demon, she unmasks long hidden fear and returns to take her seat along the Night King as his Queen, much to everyone’s displeasure. 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧. 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬. Whose will fail first? A new revelation inevitably ties Snowlin to the Obscur Asteri, forcing a new bargain to be struck between the two. The odds knew no favour to the wicked or kind in Numengarth, but the wind, sky and thunder favoured her as she ensues a quest to find Aurora’s sceptre pieces before her father and put an end to the war he’d started long before her creation, that of ultimate destruction. 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭? 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝?

In a god cursed realm, where rage is the food of war, Snowlin was already satiated. Now a prisoner of her father again, she has no choice but to play gambit for the sake of the people she loves. With only three pieces away from forming the Octa Virga, the Winter King prepares his armies of monsters and humans to overtake the realm and claim it as his own—crown himself a God. But his daughter lays the chessmen to play one last game of deceit. Who will move first? A pawn can be a queen, but a queen can never be a pawn. And a king who has lost his queen will do everything to claim her back. An alliance like no other forms in Numen to face the inevitable war. The odds knew no favour to the wicked or kind in Numengarth, but there were no odds to favour the wicked or kind as the realm awaits to see which Guardian will remain at the end of it all. Flame or lightning. While eyes are blinded by power, who will lose grasp of it first? The greedy King or the cursed Queen?

In a god-blessed realm where old ghosts lay resting but not gone, Thora remains the most haunted. Now queen of Isjord, she’s helped her kingdom thrive back into its once glorious days that old kings had tarnished with greed and a need for power. For ten years, Thora has ruled with a steady reign, but one that has always been doubted by a few who still wish to see old kings take her throne. When the new queen of the Islines rises to lay claim on Isjord as a true heir of pure Krigborn blood, many begin taking her side. The old will fight the new. And the new will face the old, which was buried in shallow graves. Much will be at stake as Iskyla Krigborn begins crawling through the foundations that Thora tried hard to set. But the closer they get to her, the darker and thicker the shadows around her become, the nearer and angrier their master grows. Strangers once friends now become allies who will raise ice and the dead as aid to the new threats of war. While peace slips away into the hands of greed, which Ice Queen will lose control of it first?

Book 5 from the The Auran Chronicles series.