The Solstice Veil

<p><strong>The Solstice Veil</strong></p><p><strong>The balance between our world and the realm of Fae is a lie.</strong></p><p>Elara Vance a pragmatic Seattle barista who moonlights as a low-level hedge-witch just wants to pay her rent and keep her small slice of the human world safe. She's inherited an ancient duty she never asked for: guarding the veil between realities. A duty that becomes brutally real when a panicked squirrel-faced messenger bursts into her coffee shop with an ominous warning.</p><p>Lord Malakor an ambitious Fae noble of the Winter Court has found a way to corrupt the ancient artifact that keeps the peace. With the Solstice rapidly approaching he plans to tear the veil open and plunge Seattle into an eternal chaotic winter.</p><p>Forced into action Elara must rely on her wits her grandmother's dusty journal of practical magic and an improbable cast of allies-including a grumpy ancient gnome and a grumpy local troll. From the hidden magic of the Seattle Underground to the icy isolation of the Olympic Mountains Elara races against time facing existential spirits Merrow politics and high-society Fae betrayals.</p><p>The world is spiraling into chaos and Elara is the only one who can assert the balance. But when the battle escalates to a global existential war against an entity of pure nothingness she must decide how much of her humanity-and her life-she is willing to sacrifice to save everything she knows.</p>