Ash and Ice

Gothic horror for romantics, sentimentalists, and other endangered species.Archibald has spent his life waiting to prove he is capable of something extraordinary. Isabelle has spent hers making herself useful enough to be impossible to overlook. Both live in a frozen city where ash falls with the ice, nothing seems to change, and citizens learn not to ask what lies beyond the walls.When Archibald breaks the rules for the sake of an impossible project, and Isabelle begins investigating a clerk who appears to have been erased from the city's records, their paths lead separately into the forbidden Horrid Hall. What they find there draws them beneath the city and into the domain of the Still King, where the promise of perfect safety carries a terrible price.Ash and Ice is a philosophical gothic romance about the terrible danger of needing nothing.