The Blue Rose Beneath The Ice

Entry for WSA 2025



A slow-burn romance of fate, second chances, and a love colder than winter itself.



She was a princess exiled to the coldest corner of the empire.

He was the Duke of the North—distant, ruthless, and haunted by a past no one dares to speak of.



Bound by a political marriage neither of them chose, Rosalind and Dorian become unwilling partners in a land ruled by snow and silence.



But the past is not so easily buried.

Not when a forbidden magic stirs beneath the ice.

Not when hearts, long frozen, begin to crack.



And not when the blue rose blooms—once every year—beneath the coldest moon.



In Everfrost, love is a battle fought in silence. And sometimes... in time.