Fairy Letters: Bitter Frost Series

By Kailin Gow

Part of the ALA YALSA Award-winning series, The Bitter Frost Series or the Frost Series (TM).

A series of letter from the Winter Fey Prince Kian of Feyland to the Summer Queen Breena during the time of their separation. Their love was forbidden as Winter and Summer Fey are at war with each other. Promised to each other at birth during a brief interlude of peace between the warring fey, Kian and Breena have always known they were each other's destinies. Now grown they are now the brokers of peace. In order to broker peace between Winter and Summer Fey, however, Kian and Breena must sacrifice their love. But in doing so, they made a promise to each other. A promise Kian thought would never be broken. But it was... Meanwhile, sharing a similar fate in love is Kian's sister Princess Shasta and her Summer Knight love Rodney....but her ways are different from her brother Kian's.

*****The Fairy Letters is a fantasy romance appropriate for age 15 and up!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sparklesoup.com
• Release date: Jan 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9781597480963

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The Fairy Letters

Letters from Prince Kian to Queen Breena

A Frost Series™ Novel

kailin gow

The Fairy Letters

Published by Sparklesoup Inc.

Copyright © 2011 Kailin Gow

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DEDICATION

For my husband, for writing me letters.

The Fairy Letters:

These are the letters Prince Kian wrote during the time of his separation from Breena in Silver Frost (Frost Series #3).

Letter One

My dearest Breena,

They will remember us. Long after these wars have been mourned and then forgotten, long after Summer and Winter fairies lay aside their rancor for one another and forget that they have ever tasted hatred, they will remember – Summer fairies, and Winter too – of a fairy king who loved his queen. They will remember that the war ended, and after there was peace at last there came a time of glory, a golden age, in which Winter and Summer stood united: one powerful Feyland. And they will remember too the love that brought the Summer and Winter Courts together – a love so great that it shattered the very boundaries of magic – and they will think of us and our love not as a danger, not as an ill, not as a transgression, but as the force that saved our world.

I have to believe this, Breena. Every day that goes by, I force myself to imagine a world in which there is not only peace between the two kingdoms, but peace in my heart as well. I know what my duties as Fairy Prince are. I know what my duties are to the land of Winter. And yet – despite all this – I know that my heart will never truly be whole unless the treaty that unites my land with yours is followed by the promise that unites your hand and heart with mine. Perhaps you are stronger than I am, Breena. You were able to put aside our love and work for peace. That was something that sometimes, in my most anguished hours, I am afraid that I would never be able to do. If I were forced to choose at this very moment between the peace we strive for and the future with you of which I so often dream, I know that my heart would be torn – the right answer, the unselfish answer, would perhaps not be the answer I would be able to give.

Funny, isn’t it? I spent my whole life learning how to be a Prince – what a Prince wears, how he moves, what he thinks, what he eats, what he drinks, what he does. I was trained from an early age to rule Feyland – much to the dismay of my sister Shasta, for she so longed to wear the crown that had been forced upon my head (before, alas, her love for Rodney clouded that earlier ambition). I learned early on that what I wanted, that what my heart wanted, was of no matter: all that mattered was the good of Feyland. My mother the Winter Queen taught me these lessons, lessons that – I knew – she wished that my father had been alive to teach me. When I first met you on your sixteenth birthday, all I could think about were those lessons: it was my duty to capture you, my duty to take you hostage, to use you as a pawn in our war against Summer.

And look at me now. Once, I was willing to forego all my desires, my attractions, to cast aside my fairy intended in order to serve the interests of the Winter Court. But now you are the strong one, Breena. You are the one able to make the hard decisions, the ones I cannot make, because when the thought of being without you crops up in my mind I can focus on nothing but taking you in my arms, kissing your shoulders, stroking your soft hair and kissing each wispy strand. We are apart now because of your strength, your courage, your wisdom. You did all this without the benefit of any fairy lessons – any upbringing at court. You never had a Queen Mother locking you in the dungeon overnight because you had failed to show sufficient humility when playing games with fairy squires. You never had a fencing-master engaged to chase you over miles of tundra to ensure that your arm did not tire in a fight. You never spent hours poring over the annals of past rulers of Feyland: great kings and queens whom you admired, and whose bravery you were told to exceed. And yet you proved yourself a great Queen nonetheless.

I am writing these letters to you with a twofold purpose. One is a selfish one – to assuage my own pain, my own loneliness, by writing to you, by sending a little figment of my soul to you in every stroke and every curve of this blueberry ink.  I feel that, by writing to you,  I am keeping that ephemeral and gossamer thread that connects us alive – I am igniting the magic that unites our souls. If I do not write to you, if I do not find some receptacle for all the words and pains and passions that gush forth like the Arctic Waterfalls of the Far North from  my soul, then I fear that I – like poor Shasta – may go mad.

Yet I have another purpose. I am afraid – I do not fear admitting it – that in this long absence you will forget me, forget us, forget the words and worlds we have shared. Not at first, of course, but over time your memories will dim, as all memories do. I fear that one day you will be unable to recognize the sound of that sweet melody played for us at our first dance in Feyland, that you will be unable to remember that first meal we shared in my hunting lodge, the conversations over my paintings, the first time we kissed. If I cannot be there with you physically, to remind you of these moments and to create new ones, then I will, at least, do what I can: I will write you a series of letters, one each week, and tell you stories about Feyland. I will tell you all that I remember of you – even those childhood impressions you likely have long since forgotten – and I will tell you too about all the things I never told you when we were together – myths and stories of Feyland, memories of my upbringing at the Winter Court, legends of fairies who fell in love before love was banned in our kingdom – anything that can bring a smile to your face. It is only in our separation that I realize how much there is that I wish to say to you, how much I never said to you. I pace the walls and corridors of my castle and grow angry with myself because I never told you the story of my mother’s favorite courtier, or because I never laughed with you about the drawing-lessons we took together, lessons I doubt you even remember. There is so much of my life, my memories, I have not shared with you.

This is my offering, then. I have told you many times that I would give myself for you – utterly and totally. If I cannot sacrifice my life for you in other ways, then at least I can give myself thus: sending you a piece of me, and of my love, with each letter that goes forth from this palace.

And perhaps one day, in the dream I have described, when we are remembered as King and Queen of a beautiful and peaceful land, and our love is recorded in the annals of Feyland, these letters will be discovered by some clever-minded fairy historian, and my passion quoted and recorded in dry history-books. Children will read in school how Prince Kian pined for his beloved fairy queen – and they will laugh because they know how the story ends: of course it has ended for them, as you say in the human world, happily ever after. But you and I don’t know this yet. We are caught in the middle, you see – we cannot look back, as I hope and pray that these children will do, and say of course – of course it all turned out right in the end.

We just don’t know.

But because if I let myself rest on that uncertainty my mind would collapse within itself, I will not dwell. I will think of those children whom I imagine reading our love-story in the history books, and pretend that it has all been decided already. We will prevail. We will survive. We will remain together – in love.

I am thinking back now, as I write this, to the very first time I heard your name mentioned. It is a hazy memory, glazed over by time. I must have been five years old, a small toy prince wearing clothing I had not yet grown into, fumbling with a sword that reached