The Iron Winter: A Christmas Journey

In the Allegheny Mountains, winter demands a heavy toll. For two years, Dr. Elias Jacobs has lived on the fringe of Conemaugh, nursing his grief like a fever after losing his family to the plague. He has traded his scalpel for rye and his hope for cold, bitter cynicism. But on the stroke of midnight, a violent summons pulls him back into the world he abandoned. Elias is met by the Belsnickel, a towering, antlered judge draped in heavy iron chains, who demands he undertake a perilous journey into the frozen heart of the mountain. A child is dying of the Rime-Sickness, and only Elias-the man who failed to save his own-can cross the corrupted landscape before the Christmas dawn. >The Iron Winter is a gripping, industrial-era fable about confronting failure, finding redemption in the darkest hour, and the heavy price of earning warmth in a world determined to freeze your soul.