Flame-Keeper, Frost-Daughter

By Kaitlin E Kime

Featuring a slow-burn sapphic romance and a subverted Chosen One trope, this charmingly dark YA fantasy is Sweet & Bitter Magic meets Cinderella Is Dead, perfect for readers who know exactly what it feels like to struggle beneath the weight of everyone else's expectations.

18-year-old Tamarack is the first in generations to have been born with the potential for magic in her swampland home and has been in training ever since to become the light her people desperately need. However, conditions in the swamps have steadily grown worse; her people are facing famine because the ghostly shades, which usually only rise in the deepest winters, have been rising earlier in the year, posing a threat to all who live in the swamps.

When the shades nearly kill Tamarack's best friend, she decides that she must leave home to try and find a way to stop the shades by traveling to the northern country of Kven l. Tamarack finds much more than she bargains for, however, when she enters a world filled with monsters, magic, shadowy politics, and the un-deniably charming Princess Ryndine. Together, they may find the answers that they have both been seeking-but what price are they willing to pay to become what their people need?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HP76KM1V
• ISBN13: 9798163183326
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"