To Bloom in Winter by Elle Thompson instant download

To Bloom in Winter by Elle Thompson instant download

Appropriate reading age: 16 to 18 years
At last! Isolde Crowl is finally allowed to travel with her father to visit the king of Elondre in the south. Ezra has been her father's friend for years, and Isolde has longed to visit Elondre, a place rumored to be devoid of the crushing traditions of the north.
After a long journey, Isolde meets Ezra's children: Pria and Julien...and stumbles across the third, a horned girl named Tana. She swears to keep the girl a secret and blossoms in her friendships with Ezra's children, forming bonds she knows will never break. Every winter for six years she returns, but a threat looms over her head, and she knows her time is short.
When her mother arranges her marriage to a baron whose previous wife died under mysterious circumstances, Isolde knows she'll never return to her new home. After stowing away to Elondre one last time, Isolde has a perilous decision to make:
Risk the Elondrans' and her new family's blood being spilled, or succumb to a marriage to the baron.
To Bloom in Winter is the novella prequel to The Magpie's Daughter, starting twelve years prior to the beginning of the fantasy novel.
Warning: There is no happily-ever-after, but there's a lot of information and characters from the world of The Magpie's Daughter that are reflected and expounded upon in books I-III of the Lineage Series.