The Witch Collector comes to the vale every Harvest Moon.
He is never late.
Until now.
Alexus Thibault, the black-cloaked Witch Collector, travels from Winterhold each year to select a witch for service to the Frost King. But this year is different. This year, something far more dangerous threatens the people on the other side of Frostwater Wood, and it rides fast on the Collector’s heels.
Raina Bloodgood despises the Witch Collector, especially since he took her sister away. She has lived in Silver Hollow for twenty-four autumns, and for twenty-four autumns he has passed her by. But why wouldn’t he? She’s a voiceless witch in a land where magick is created by song. What would the Frost King want with a woman like her?
When Raina and Alexus’s lives collide, they face the fury of an enemy hellbent on claiming an ancient magick that will bring irrevocable change to every corner of the continent. That enemy needs one last pawn to tip the balances—the Frost King—and they are determined to have him.
Thrust into an age-old war of fire, ice, and buried gods, Raina and Alexus must become a formidable force of their own, or let the world as they know it, and those they hold most dear, be destroyed.