A Crown of Frost and Gunpowder

In the brutal crucible of the French & Indian War, there are no heroes?only survivors and weapons. Scott Hunter chose to become the latter.

Desperate to save his family from ruin, young Scott trades the grime of Liverpool for the promise of land and fortune in the New World. But the war he joins is not the one from the history books. Here, British redcoats face French wood-witches, siege lines are harried by dragons, and the very air crackles with spent magic.

Thrust into this gritty, magical conflict, Scott's only ambition is to survive and send money home. But when he plucks a mysterious, frozen gauntlet from a dead enemy, he seizes a power he cannot understand. The Frost-Fetter offers a path from desperate soldier to feared weapon?a path that leads through the heart of darkness and onto the bloody Plains of Abraham.

As empires clash and dragons take to the sky, Scott must wield the gauntlet's terrifying magic to turn the tide of battle. But each burst of frost costs a piece of his humanity, and victory may demand his soul. In a war where ambition is the deadliest fire, will Scott become the hero his kingdom needs, or the monster his own heart fears?