The blizzard didn't just bite, it consumed. In the frozen heart of the whispering spine forest, a young woman named Emily Vance was dying. Cast out starving and hunted, she had nothing left to give. That's when she heard the cry. A lone wolf cub cornered by starving rogues. She had a choice. run and survive one more day or use the one secret she had a forbidden magic that would drain her very life force to save him. She chose the cub. And as darkness took her, she was found, not by a savior, but