As a young stag-shifter, all Pembroke dreams of is being harnessed to Santa’s sleigh. Yet his world comes crashing down when Santa is slain by the imposter Frost.<br><br>War erupts in the Arctic Circle, pitting elf against reindeer, and Pembroke is sent on a perilous mission. If he fails, his herd will be lost. When the mission goes awry, the stag-shifter must put his trust in an unlikely ally.<br><br>Where does one turn in a land of ice and blood? What happens when the enemy infiltrates your heart? What begins as a wavering alliance just might take Pembroke farther than he ever imagined.

Sugar Plum'd

It would be impossible to find harmony between elf and deer now.


Their crimes too impossible to forgive.


He felt a twinge in his chest as he watched the elf among the trees.


It seemed so different from the others.


It was the dust, the Kahani, his mind wasn’t clear.


Pembroke would never release a traitor of the Slain alive.


If they were going to teleport, he needed to take deer form.


Pembroke closed his eyes, trying to conjure the poinsettia.


His body felt weak after giving the elf such a large supply of his stored-up dust. A poinsettia refused to surface.


With the warm breeze and the sunlight, the hardened tundra flower appeared in his mind. Pinched and wrapped around itself, as if frozen closed. It refused to unfurl. If he couldn’t change back into a reindeer, Pembroke couldn’t use his antlers to triangulate the coordinates to wink away.


Chapter 19