Feyre I painted and painted and painted. My heart thundered the entire time, steady as a war-drum. I painted until my back cramped and my stomach gurgled with demands for hot cocoa and dessert. I’d known what needed to come out of me the moment I perched on the rickety stool I’d dusted off from … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 10

Feyre I shouldn’t have eaten dinner. It was the thought tumbling through my head as I neared the studio Ressina occupied, darkness full overhead. As I saw the lights spilling into the frosted street, mixing with the glow from the lamps. At this hour, three days before Solstice, it was packed with shoppers—not just residents … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 9

Cassian A storm was coming. Right in time for Solstice. It wouldn’t hit for another day or two, but Cassian could smell it on the wind. The others in the Windhaven camp could as well, the usual flurry of activity now a swift, efficient thrum. Houses and tents checked, stews and roasts being prepared, people … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 8

Rhysand “You really do know how to give Solstice presents, Az.” I turned from the wall of windows in my private study at the House of Wind, Velaris awash in the hues of early morning. My spymaster and brother remained on the other side of the sprawling oak desk, the maps and documents he’d presented … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 7

Morrigan There was no light in this place. There never had been. Even the evergreen garlands, holly wreaths, and crackling birchwood fires in honor of the Solstice couldn’t pierce the eternal darkness that dwelled in the Hewn City. It was not the sort of darkness that Mor had come to love in Velaris, the sort … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 6

Feyre I was curled up on the bed, toasty and drowsy atop the layers of blankets and down quilts, when Rhys finally returned home as dusk fell. I felt his power beckoning to me long before he got near the house, a dark melody through the world. Mor had announced we wouldn’t be going to … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 5

Feyre The Rainbow was a hum of activity, even with the drifting veils of snow. High Fae and faeries alike poured in and out of the various shops and studios, some perched on ladders to string up drooping garlands of pine and holly between the lampposts, some sweeping gathered clusters of snow from their doorsteps, … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 4

Cassian Cassian wasn’t entirely certain that he could deal with Devlon and his warriors without throttling them. At least, not for the next good hour or so. And since that would do little to help quell the murmurings of discontent, Cassian waited until Rhys had winnowed out into the snow and wind before vanishing himself. … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 3

Rhysand It was barely nine in the morning, and Cassian was already pissed. The watery winter sun tried and failed to bleed through the clouds looming over the Illyrian Mountains, the wind a boom across the gray peaks. Snow already lay inches deep over the bustling camp, a vision of what would soon befall Velaris. … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 2

Feyre The first snow of winter had begun whipping through Velaris an hour earlier. The ground had finally frozen solid last week, and by the time I’d finished devouring my breakfast of toast and bacon, washed down with a heady cup of tea, the pale cobblestones were dusted with fine, white powder. I had no … Continue reading A Court of Frost and Starlight – Chapter 1