What the Cold Keeps

About this book

The sun failed three generations ago, and the world of the Long Dusk survives around emberwells. Sera Vane tends a failing well and hides a forbidden gift: she can hold warmth without giving it back. When Corin Ashe, a quench-knight of the Sable Throne, collapses freezing from within, only her touch can keep him alive. Their wary bargain carries them across the Rime toward the empire's hoarded Ninth Ember, where they discover that the lore keeping them apart was built to protect power. A slow-burn romantasy about a keeper who hoards heat, the dying enemy soldier only she can hold together, and a lie the powerful have told for a thousand winters.