Melting the Ice Queen

A match made in heaven. A marriage frozen in hell. Queen Ailana of Nornne is famous for her magical powers over ice and snow and her equally frosty nature. The guiding force behind the Queens of Villainy, she makes every decision based on cool and unemotional calculations... Hot-headed High Priestess Clothilde has been under the brutal control of her brother, the Emperor of the Serafin Empire. But behind her public smiles, a fiery passion for justice has been building - and an equally hot passion for Ailana herself. Clothilde proposes a marriage of convenience in their shared efforts to bring down her brother, but she's determined to melt all of Ailana's walls of ice, because Clothilde has been keeping another secret, too. The gods of the Imperial Pantheon have been speaking to her for years, and They've gifted her with two world-shaking truths: Ailana is her destined true love . . . and if the two wives don't find a way to work together with their fellow Queens of Villainy, a storm of war and blood will leave all of their futures in ruins. Tropes: Marriage of Convenience; Grumpy x Sunshine; Second Chance Romance; Ice Queen; The Chosen One; Found Family; Forced Proximity;

Stephanie Burgis grew up in East Lansing, Michigan, but now lives in Wales with her husband and two children, surrounded by mountains, castles and coffee shops. She writes wildly romantic adult historical fantasies (including The Harwood Spellbook, over 20,000 self-published copies sold) and has had over forty short stories for adults and teens published in magazines and anthologies.