She's blind. And she's being hunted.

Aika Song must make an important delivery through the cursed Crimson Forest for her injured father. If she doesn't, they won't survive the hard winter.

She fails.

But she's rescued by wolf shifters who somehow give her sight.

There's beautiful, funny Archer who can't quite hide his pain. Grady who's sullen and loud. And Thomas, their alpha, who mysteriously vanishes.

Aika is desperate to get back home but finds herself entangled in her father's secrets. He has enemies. So do the wolf shifters she feels a blooming fondness for. And all their enemies are circling closer to their prey.

With her wolves' help, Aika will have to stay one step ahead if she's to survive Winter's Edge.

The Crimson Winter series is created by Lindsey R. Loucks, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

The Crimson Winter Series

I fished the fake poison from my pocket and laid it on the table between us, a temptation wrapped in hope. "It's twice as potent."


"Hm..." He picked it up, and I licked my lips, my mind spinning on what I could possibly tell him that would make him believe me when I still wasn't sure of the dosage and all the different ways it worked exactly on people like him. Wolf shifters. And on the fact that it was just moonshine mixed with harmless herbs and not real poison at all. The screw lid on top squealed slightly as he twisted it, and then he inhaled. "Well. Certainly smells that way."


"Ever heard of the five-step snake?" I blurted.


"After a five-step snake bites you, that's how many steps you take before you fall over dead. Just five." I nodded at the bottle still in his hands. "That concoction... That's what I would call a five-step snake."


Chapter 28