Quicksilver

Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate.

At twenty-four, Saeris Fane is a master of the unspoken. In a brutal, sun-scorched desert where water is more precious than gold, she has survived by picking pockets and siphoning from the Undying Queen’s private reserves. She’s kept her strange, burgeoning powers a secret for years, but every knot eventually unravels.

When Saeris crosses paths with a personification of Death, she accidentally triggers a dormant gateway, hurling her from the searing sands into a realm of eternal ice and lethal beauty. The Fae were supposed to be nothing more than grim bedtime stories, but in the frozen mountains of Yvelia, Saeris finds herself caught in the gears of a centuries-old war that doesn't care if she lives or dies.

As the first Alchemist to set foot in Yvelia in a millennium, she inadvertently binds her fate to Kingfisher, a striking Fae warrior with a sharp tongue and an even sharper agenda. Known as the shadow of the Ajun Gate, Kingfisher is determined to harvest Saeris’s rare magic to shield his people, regardless of the toll it takes on her. He is arrogant, his past is stained with blood, and he is her only hope of finding a way back home.

In this land of frost and folklore, Saeris must learn a hard lesson: be wary of the bargains you strike, because the devil is always hiding in the details.