Currents of Frozen Fire

Lyra Peterson is the deadliest shadow operative of the Abyssal Court, deployed to a decadent summit with a single directive: execute Grand Marshal Vaelen Rime and secure her people's freedom. But when a neutral diplomat is butchered to frame them both, Lyra and Vaelen realize the summit is an elaborate culling ground. Their empires are not colliding in war-they are colluding in a manufactured genocide.Forced over a three-mile precipice into the toxic expanse of the Dead Woods, the former enemies must forge an uneasy truce to survive. Beneath the petrified forests lies Dr. Viktor's horrifying masterwork: Project Red Tide, an alchemical plague designed to wipe out coastal populations for mineral greed.Hunted by relentless hunter-skiffs and clockwork automatons, Lyra's fluid resonance and Vaelen's devastating absolute-zero cryo-kinetics are all that stand between civilization and catastrophic annihilation. As forced proximity turns bitter rivalry into an unshakeable bond, they must dismantle the tyrannical machine before their homelands drown in boiling crimson ice.In a war built on lies, their defiance is the spark that will ignite the thaw. It is a deeply woven, earned romance born out of two indoctrinated weapons learning to become human together.