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The Waking Current · Book One

Winter
Juniper

A weary soldier. An enemy mage. A frozen war zone that forces them together, and a connection neither faction would forgive.

Winter Juniper — Book One cover art

Book One · In Final Revision

Premise

In the Frostspine Reaches, war has ground everything down to one question: who dies next?

Reid Halden is a Protectorate soldier who stopped believing in the ground he's ordered to hold. Lyra Luneth is a Cerulean Order mage who has never questioned the system that governs her world. Until the mountains take it from her.

What starts as necessity becomes something neither of them planned for. Something neither faction would forgive.

Enemies. Exiles. And what happens when you stop following orders.

This book is for readers who want

  • Slow-burn romantic tension
  • Enemies to lovers
  • Character-driven fantasy with literary weight
  • War-forged intimacy and political stakes
  • A world that earns its complexity

The World

Caelithâr is a continent with a long memory. Magic is real but not equally shared. The Aelaryn were here first. And the conflict over what came after has flared and faded for centuries. The current war has lasted thirty-seven years. Neither side knows how to stop.

“The Frostspine was a sentence, not a posting.”

The prologue opens at the War Gate, where a young Cerulean magister volunteers for a deployment no one returns from unchanged.

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