The night Avalanche’s mother died, the Fae Queen carved a vow into her daughter’s spine with silver ink: “You will bind the Unbroken King, or die as he did.” Twenty years later, Avalanche walks into the Obsidian Spire—her magic suppressed, her name forged, her heart armored in ice. She’s here to assassinate Vex Korvath, the vampire monarch who slaughtered her witch-blooded family and claimed the Crown of Thorns, a relic that belongs to her bloodline. But the moment she steps onto the ritual dais