The Assassin Game Archives A Thousand Years of Frost, Book 2, (Paperback)

<p><strong>A brutal, high-stakes romantasy set in a land divided by loyalties and secrets. <em>A Thousand Years of Frost</em> is a steamy, <em>How to Train Your Dragon</em>-inspired epic novel.</strong></p><p></p><p>For more than a thousand years, frost has hardened over Orinwaard, drawing a cold line across the valley that both sides swore never to cross. In the north lies a land claimed by the Pjuiian Empire, protected by ancient wind serpents and their dedicated riders. In the south lie clans that believe those creatures are an abomination. Once, Barclay Theano was one of them.</p><p></p><p>Before his exile from the Sreu Clan, he loathed the Imperial North and the assassins who rode clan-eaters to fly patrols. It was not until he barely endured three years in the wild that the brittle winds commanded him to find another way: to survive by any means. Led to the Islasi ré Menne, Barclay made an oath to the empire in spite of his morals and set out to become an assassin himself. Determined to live, the second humanity rupture has led him home to the mountains, and he never should have returned.</p><p></p><p>Now hunted by southerners, including an old flame, who would sooner carve out his heart than welcome him back, he must find a way to win the trials set before him. Forced to mount a wind serpent and put himself at risk of forming a bond he cannot escape, he is not alone. Zadkiel, an undercover prince, has his own ambitions. Every fledgling among them does, and love has begun to complicate things. Alongside comrades braving deadly undertakings for motives both moral and impish, the fledgling assassins find themselves entangled in schemes of underhanded politics and sabotage. With secrets on the line and lives at stake, it is impossible to know who can be trusted and who might harbor knowledge forbidden enough to crumble the already delicate treaty between the Lju Sabaarin dwellers and the Hju North.</p><p></p><p>The cold may mask secrets well, but the most dire are protected where the frost forms thickest: at the Keeps of Khrenhold. Moving forward, they must reconcile fear with survival, contempt with loyalty-and forge bonds that could lead them to victory or destroy them all.</p><p></p>

• The Assassin Game Archives A Thousand Years of Frost, Book 2, (Paperback)
• Author: Holly R Valakresch
• ISBN: 9798295865855
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2025-12-01
• Page Count: 744