Books & What’s Next
Books
Out Now: A Bargain of Winter and Wyrd — Frostbound Court, Book One.
A mortal librarian, Elowen Thorne, enters Winter to break a debt bound in law, not legend. What follows is a negotiation of power, consent, and survival—where every promise leaves a mark and love must be chosen carefully.
Also Available: A Night of Gilded Frost — a Frostbound Court novella.
The Winter Court’s grand masquerade promises one harmless night of revelry, but the promise is a lie. Elowen Thorne and Prince Cael are drawn into a game of favors in which secrets buy survival and masks cut deeper than blades. One bargain could save Elowen’s brother—or ruin the fragile trust between them—amid gilded halls, whispered contracts, and a kiss that risks the Wyrd itself.
Also Available: A Crown of Thorns and Thaw — Frostbound Court, Book Two.
The treaty fractures, the crown bleeds, and winter finally breaks. Elowen and Cael stand between a kingdom and war: his thorned crown feeds on the curse that’s killing him, while her scholarship may unmask a vow the court hid in ice. In a game of assassins, statecraft, and dangerous desire, trust is the sharpest magic. When thaw comes, one truth will decide everything—who rules, who lives, and whether love survives the cost.
Forthcoming: Snow and Ink.
What’s Next
Arden Neris continues the Frostbound Court series with a steady release rhythm: two novels and one novella per year. The story widens beyond the Winter Court, drawing new rivals into the circle and raising the stakes around vows, power, and memory—each book adding pressure to the choices already made.
Background
Before publishing romantasy, Arden worked in rights and contracts for small presses, where she learned how promises become power on paper. She still collects old atlases and folklore notes, and builds her worlds from maps, margins, and the kinds of clauses that can save—or ruin—a crown.
