<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>When an arranged marriage is forced upon Ilara she must find a way to outwit the Court of Winter in order to escape her demanded fate.</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Being entered into the Rising Queen Trial is equivalent to death. If I win I'll marry my enemy. If I lose I'll marry another fae of the king's choosing. Either way my freedom is lost unless I find a way to escape.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Intent on fleeing I train my new affinities and learn what's needed to survive while pretending to vie for the throne. With my sister at my side I know we'll find a way to prevent my enslavement to the Court of Winter.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> But the Crown Prince has other ideas. As Prince Norivun's interest in me grows I'm determined to avoid his allure until he reveals sides of himself he'd kept hidden-sides that make me want to succumb to the innate need burning inside me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> Now that his secrets are laid bare devastating consequences loom for me and him. Consequences that not even the powerful prince could have foreseen.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Thorns of Frost</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>&nbsp;is book two in&nbsp;</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fae of Snow &amp; Ice</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> a four-book enemies-to-lovers fae fantasy romance series that takes place in Krista Street's&nbsp;</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Supernatural World</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. This series contains steamy romance a strong female fae who refuses to bow a morally gray prince whose brutality knows no bounds and a deadly tangle of royal strife and intrigue.</span></p>