WINTER ON THE TIDEFALL: A Tidefall Cycle Novella

By Theodore Halloway

The sea has forgotten how to be warm. Only a song can make it remember, and every song costs a memory.

Six weeks ago, Kaelen Vance broke the Eye of the Abyss and set the sirens free. It cost her every memory of loving Soren Avenant, the Tidelord of Tidefall.

Now winter has come to Tidefall, and the sea is freezing solid. The harbor is closing, grain ships are trapped beyond the ice, and every night the frozen water sings a lullaby it cannot finish. Only the Frost Song, the first free siren song in three hundred years, can break the ice before the city starves.

Kaelen is the one voice the city will follow. But every song costs a memory, and the only memories she has left of Soren are the new ones, six weeks of them. She isn't ready to lose a single one.

Soren still loves her and feels everything through the bond that ties them. He never asks for more than she can give. He only asks, "May I?" For the first time, her answer is "Not yet."

Snowed in together at an abandoned siren lighthouse, they find the lost song painted on the walls, along with a truth that changes everything. Back in the city, Soren is preparing a secret Frosttide gift: a book of what everyone else saw when Kaelen loved him. It could heal what they're building, or break it.

Inside this cozy-yet-heartbreaking winter romantasy:

Snowed in together in a lighthouse, with one bedA slow-burn, second-chance romance where the love has to be chosen twiceA secret holiday gift and a found-family Frosttide dinnerA memory-cost magic system with real stakesA city that learns to sing again, and a winter festival of candle-boats on the iceA closed-door romance full of yearning and tender moments, with a hopeful ending

Winter on the Tidefall is a novella of about 32,000 words, set between The Salt Cage (Book One) and The Memory Tide (Book Two) of the Tidefall Cycle. It's a perfect holiday read for fans of romantic fantasy, enemies-to-lovers sequels and stories that make you cry in the best way.

Light a candle, set it on the water, and come back to Tidefall this winter.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HR1164KF
• ISBN13: 9798140813512
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"