The Winter Duke

Ekata's family is in trouble and since she survived the curse, she must survive the throne-but first she needs to find out how to save the people she loves.

All Ekata wants is to stay alive-and the chance to prove herself as a scholar. Once Ekata's brother is finally named heir to the dukedom of Kylma Above, there will be nothing to keep her at home with her murderous family. Not her books or her experiments, not her family's icy castle atop a frozen lake, not even the tantalizingly close Ky...