Winter Glory

Strange magic births a monster of transcendent strength. Can a wily old hunter bring the beast to bay before it slays the woman he once cherished?

Ivvar still loves his estranged wifeheartbreakingly. Long years alone and striving to believe the lie that mere contentment and small joys suffice, Ivvar knows deep down that only his buried passion for Paiam offers true happiness. When he glimpses her across the rowdy dining hall of an inn, he vows to approach her againjust not quite yet.

Paiam fights admitting she owes her former husband an apology. Wrestling regret for the hurt she dealt him decades ago, she convinces herself that banishing the man from her life spared them both worse pain. When she stumbles upon Ivvar rescuing a dangerous troll-witch in the wilderness, all her old rancor at his recklessness rises.

But threats more perilous than vicious trolls and ice tigers haunt the cold northern forests. Heralded by shuddering air and earthresonant like an avalanche, violent as river ice crackingan ancient scourge of the North-lands stalks Ivvar and Paiam as prey.

Will the star-crossed duo survive the intricate dance of love and death?

Winter Glory is the thrilling third book in the relationship-focused Kaunis Clan Saga, a fantasy trilogy. If you enjoy wise tales of second chances laced with action and adventure, you'll love J.M. Ney-Grimm's insightful novella.

Buy Winter Glory to rekindle old love today!

KAUNIS CLAN SAGA

The Hammarleeding people dwell in high mountain valleys. They wield a tribal magic born of dance and song and the flow of sacred waters.

Ritual and tradition anchor Hammarleeding culture. While uplifting and beautiful, their rites underpin many thou-shalt-nots.

From Sarvet's Wanderyar to Winter Glory, one womanor one manchallenges the shibboleths that threaten heror hisparticular bright dream.

Sarvet's Wanderyar (1)
Crossing the Naiad (1.5)
Livli's Gift (2)
Winter Glory (3)

Each installment presents a unique protagonist from a fresh generation of the family.

PRAISE FOR WINTER GLORY

"A little atmospheric gem of a novella... interesting, beautifully written, and worth re-reading." RS

"In the starkly beautiful North-lands - a place that Ney-Grimm conveys so clearly it's like watching a movie on the inside of your skull - two people who once knew and loved each other meet up again. This is their story..." L. Montgomery

"The descriptive language is nothing short of gorgeous... I love that the protagonists are older... and they stuck with me long after I had finished reading." MA

"The writing is lucid, elegant, smooth. Ney-Grimm creates a fantasy world of Norse legends, but with real people..." Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt

"...in the midst of this excellent adventure story comes an insight so brilliant..." Pat Patterson

EXCERPT FROM WINTER GLORY

His gaze stopped on a woman sitting alone in the booth at the far left corner.

She wore Hammarleeding garbwool tunic and leggings like hishers drab in subdued ecru decorated by patterns of gray and white. She was bony, rangy, likely quite tall . . . and she held herself like a queen, straight and graceful as she sipped her cup of tea.

The frontiersmen began a rollicking ballad about bears dancing in the woods, and the Hammarleeding woman turned her face toward them.

Ivvar felt all the air punch out of his lungs.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J.M. Ney-Grimm lives with her husband and children in Virginia, just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She's learning about permaculture gardening and debunking popular myths about food. The rest of the time she reads Robin McKinley, Diana Wynne Jones, and Lois McMaster Bujold, plays boardgames like

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