She came to bargain for her sister's life. She never expected to become the one thing the Frost King could not afford to lose.
Catrin Fenwick has always known there is something strange about the warmth beneath her skin.
When a deadly frost-blight begins freezing her sister from the inside out, Catrin has only one choice left. Cross the Wall of Storms, enter the legendary Frostbound Palace, and bargain with the ruler blamed for centuries of endless winter.
Leont Vaelmont is no longer entirely a man.
Three hundred years beneath the Crown of Black Ice have left the Frost King powerful, ruthless, and slowly consumed by the curse keeping his kingdom frozen. He needs a living source of warmth to stabilize the magic before it destroys everything under his rule.
And Catrin burns hotter than anyone he has ever encountered.
Her bargain is simple. Leont saves her sister, and Catrin remains in his palace long enough to complete the ritual that could hold the curse at bay.
But nothing inside the Frostbound Court is simple.
Ancient laws hide dangerous lies. Powerful nobles would rather sacrifice Catrin than allow the kingdom to change. Her strange warmth is awakening into something neither she nor Leont understands. And the longer she remains beside the terrifying king who was supposed to be her captor, the harder it becomes to ignore the man beneath the ice.
Because Leont does not merely need her magic.
He wants her.
And when Catrin discovers the truth about the curse, the bargain binding them may become the very thing that gives her the power to break it.
To save her sister, Catrin was willing to surrender her freedom.
To save the Frost King, she may have to risk her heart.
The Frost King's Bargain is Book One of The Frostbound Crown, a dark, romance-first romantasy featuring a cursed Frost King, a desperate magical bargain, Beauty and the Beast tension, forced proximity, dangerous court secrets, a powerful heroine discovering her magic, and explicit open-door romance.
