Winter in Lunaris was the real deal. The temperature was below minus ten degrees, and it seemed like the breath you exhaled could freeze instantly.
When Isabella used to live in Lunaris, she didn't think the place was that cold.
Having lived in Northbay for the past three years, Isabella had already grown accustomed to and fond of the relatively warm weather of the south.
Now returning to Lunaris, not only was the weather unbearably cold, but everything else seemed so unfamiliar to her as if she had never known it before.
Sitting in Alexander's car, the heater was turned up high, but Isabella still felt extremely cold, as if she was in a freezing ice cellar, shivering with cold, her face so pale that there was not a trace of color.
Thinking of her mother, the mother who had endured do
