It was supposed to be over. She was supposed to be home. Ice is a wicked deadly magic that creeps up dark corridors, threatening to crack all it touches. Valentina finds herself vulnerable behind enemy lines in the court of her nightmares. But frost has quieted her mind, ice has hardened her soul, and the Frost Witches of Winter Court have a power she never expected. Uprooted from their safehold, the faeless of Blackwater Junction search for a new place to call home as the War of Many grows to extremes. But Deryn Ironside, recluse faeless on the Mainland, never expected it to be so close to her. Armed with her hawkshifter lover and her trickster demigod best friend, she does what she must to stay away from the War. Kaderyn's heard the baying of the hounds and has returned its call to the Wild Hunt. To home. But something in the soft night, memories of a love, are calling him back. Rise of a Huntress is book 3 in the 4-book Wild Hunt fae fantasy romance series. Content warnings violence, swearing and sexual content not meant for those under 18.