Winter Queen

What Happened Before Wyn, heiress to the Winter throne, slayer of demons, etc, was slowly getting used to life in her mother’s Palace. Except for the dresses, she’s never going to get used to those. She met Blaze, a unicorn, learned to fly and went on some dates with her Guardians (finally!). But of course, something had to happen to destroy all of that. She got poisoned, almost died, ended up in the Library of Lives where she had to prove that she was worthy of becoming Immortal. Back in the Realm, she had to deal with the dragon shifter who’d tried to kill her, but he refused to say anything, not even when the Guardian Ada questioned him. He’d taken poison which turned out to be made from a plant only found in the Demon Realms, which led the Council to wonder whether their main suspect, the Summer God Angus, might be working with the demons. Wyn finally confronted Crispin about his past, and he showed her some of his memories of how he was created by the Morrigan and turned into her assassin and torturer. Wyn had been worried about her adoptive parents for a long time, so she managed to persuade Arc to find a way to check on them. With the help of a demon, they created a mental link and were able to speak through the demon as he visited Wyn’s parents. Well, never trust a demon. He kidnapped her parents, telling them that he was doing it for the Morrigan. At a Council meeting to discuss the situation, a messenger suddenly brought in a box. Inside it was the hand of Wyn’s adoptive mum, and when Wyn touched it, she saw that her mother was dead and her father still prisoner of the Morrigan. In a bit of a mental breakdown, she decided to become like Beira, an ice queen without emotion. In the epilogue, the demoness Chesca appears at one of the Realm’s Gates, asking to speak to Wyn. She gets killed by one of the guards, but manages to give them her final message: that the Morrigan is behind it all and that she controls the demons.