Lesie1610
Seventeen-year-old Reina has only ever wanted a quiet life with her grandmother in the frostbitten outskirts of Ardenia. But when she is unwillingly chosen in the Winter Selection to serve at the royal palace, everything she knows is left behind.
Leaving behind her sickly grandmother, Reina enters a world of marble halls, whispered secrets, and a king who hasn't aged in centuries. But the palace's beauty hides a pulse of something cold and ancient, and the further she's drawn into its heart, the more she begins to wonder if she was brought there by chance... or by design.
Bound by duty, drawn by curiosity, Reina soon discovers that some bonds are harder to break than chains... and far more dangerous to her guarded heart.