Jennifer Kropf
"Deck the halls with bells and folly..."
Helen Bell has changed since facing off with Mara Rouge in the Quarrel of Sword and Bone. But so has Winter.
When a Timepiece crosses the intersect to give Helen a set of three warnings in the form of a puzzle, she's forced to re-enter the world she thought she might never see again to solve it before she meets a deadly end.
But things are different in Winter. Things
I'm dreaming of a frightful Christmas...
The first thing that Patrolman Zane Cohen notices when he meets Helen Bell again in this new season is that she is not herself.
The libraries of the Volumes of Wisdom have been burned to ash. Believers of the Truth are disappearing across the snow globe. A Beast of the darkness is taking hostages and building his army in Winter. And Helen...
Helen sees it all unfolding
...Once, there was the Truth which shone as pure as Gold.
Then, came a Beast who devoured Winter's lights.
'Twas Gold versus Poison
Darkness versus Light
King versus Beast
Day verses Night
A Beast as Dark as Night is the epic finale to The Winter Souls Series, a Christmas themed collection with holiday myths and folklore. Ideal for fans of The Chronicles of Narnia by
"Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good fright..."
The Quarrel of Sword and Bone was a death sentence for anyone who stepped into the arena with the deranged Queen, whose soul had crisped to frost in an age long since past.
What if St. Nicholas was really a young, mad trickster and you had the one thing he wanted? What if the only person who agreed to protect you from him had a dark past of letting those