Hoarfrost (Raven & the Lake #1) Rowan Ravenheart

A SECOND-CHANCE FATED-MATES ROMANCE IN A DYING FAERY

Three years ago, Jesryn Hallows fled Faery, the gods, and the fated mate who betrayed her. She built a mortal life beyond the Veil and tried to forget the magic-and the man-she left behind.

But Faery is beginning to unravel.

Its ley lines are failing. Magic is bleeding from the realm. Old gods are stirring, Arthurian prophecies are waking beneath the drowned bones of Avalon, and Jesryn has been summoned home to take up the mantle she once refused.

Going home means facing Owyn Corey.

Three years with a frayed matebond have left him volatile, obsessive, and haunted by the woman he never stopped searching for. He wants her gone. He wants her back. And when Jesryn returns, neither can pretend the bond between them died when she crossed the Veil.

Worse, Faery can feel it too.

Their volatile emotions bleed into the failing ley lines, binding their broken love to the fate of the realm. As mortal towns and fae kingdoms begin to bleed into one another, Jesryn and Owyn must reckon with the choice that destroyed them-and decide whether the love neither managed to kill can become the thing that saves their world.

Hoarfrost begins The Raven & the Lake, a six-book mythic fantasy romance series of old gods, fractured ley lines, Arthurian legend, fated love, found family, and ruinous magic.

For readers of A River Enchanted, The Wolf and the Woodsman, and The Knight and the Moth who love immersive worldbuilding, lyrical prose, obsessive devotion, second-chance romance, Celtic mythology, old gods who still walk the world, and stories that reveal their secrets slowly.