The Debt. The Lord. The Ice.
Elise Montgomery destroys things. Crystal bottles, servants’ nerves, her father’s patience. She’s cruel and she knows it. The hollow ache in her chest has been there since birth, and nothing—not gowns, not jewels, not a single one of her father’s borrowed fortunes—has ever filled it.
She can’t explain the frost that forms on her mirror when she screams. Or the dreams about eyes like frozen lakes.
Lord Aratus Glacialis can. He bought her father’s debt twenty years ago. Had the contracts drawn before she could walk. When Edgar signs the transfer papers at four in the morning, hands shaking, whiskey on his breath—Aratus doesn’t feel guilt.
He feels the prophecy clicking into place.
She arrives at the Frost Court as cargo on a signed receipt.
When her body wakes under his hands—when she discovers that his touch is ice-cold everywhere except where it shouldn’t be, that Frost Court anatomy is nothing like she imagined—Elise learns that the emptiness was never brokenness. It was space. Waiting for him.
She breaks his furniture. His patience. Every rule he sets.
He doesn’t stop her. He has six centuries of practice watching things shatter.
Then she finds the contracts. Dated the year she was born. Her name written as collateral before she had one.
Elise has to decide what she is.
The socialite who was sold before she could speak.
The omega who was hollow because a Fae lord needed her empty.
Or the Ice Queen of a court that was dying until she shattered it back to life.
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Why You’ll Read This in One Sitting:
The cold: His touch soothes her fever. Frost-flowers bloom across her skin wherever he claims her. She’s been burning her whole life and he’s the first thing that doesn’t.
The debt: He bought a baby’s future and waited twenty years to collect. He is not sorry. She is going to make him pay anyway.
The breaking: “Do you regret it?” he asks. “Every day,” she says. “And I’d choose it again every day. Even the parts I hate.”
FROZEN is Book Two in the Dark Faeverse series. It can be read as a standalone but is best enjoyed in order.
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Fated Mates Debt Captive Omega Morally Bankrupt MMC Frost Court Anatomy Claiming & Bonding Touch Her and Die He Bought Her Before She Could Walk Forced Proximity She Breaks Everything (Including Him)
Dark fae omegaverse romance. Dubious consent, captivity, and an alpha who waited twenty years for what was already his. HEA guaranteed. Boundaries respected by the author if not by the hero.
