Quicksilver

Do not touch the blade.
Do not turn the key.
Do not open the gate.

Saeris Fane, twenty-four and sharper than any knife she’s ever stolen, is an expert at hiding the truth. No one knows about the strange, mercurial magic humming beneath her skin—or that she’s been siphoning water from the Undying Queen’s stores and lifting coin from pockets for years. In a desert where thirst can kill faster than a blade, survival leaves little room for honesty. But secrets have a way of unraveling, thread by dangerous thread.

When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, one disastrous choice tears open a long-sealed passage between realms. In an instant, she is thrust from blistering dunes into a world sculpted from ice. The Fae—creatures whispered about in bedtime warnings and nightmare tales—are not only real, but locked in a centuries-old war that Saeris has stumbled straight into.

As the first human to set foot in the frozen kingdom of Yvelia in over a millennium, Saeris accidentally binds herself to Kingfisher, a brooding Fae warrior whose past is as shadowed as the mountains around them. He needs her Alchemist magic to save his people, and he intends to use it—no matter the cost to himself…or to her.

Death walks with a name here: Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His history is bloodied. His temper is legendary. And frustratingly, he may be Saeris’s only hope of finding her way home.

Beware the bargains you strike, little one. The fine print always bites.

Note: Quicksilver contains graphic violence and mature content, recommended for readers 18+