Books with title The Tough Winter

From best-selling author Holly Webb comes a gorgeous wintery story of a very special friendship, just in time for Christmas. Amelia is exploring the huge, old house where her family are spending Christmas when she finds a diary hidden in the attic. It was written by a boy struggling to look after an abandoned wolf pup. Before she knows it, Amelia is transported into the wintry world of the diary. Fans of Holly Webb's The Reindeer Girl will delight in this beautiful winter's tale.

The third volume in this powerful epic fantasy in the tradition of Robin Hobb and Peter Brett.A RECKONING IS AT HANDOn the eve of battle, an army tears itself apart from within. A new, unassailable force rises from the slaughter, with the power to raise the dead and harness wild gods. Malcolm Blakley’s fighters flee the battlefield, alliances shift and fail, and Malcolm himself is once more running for his life. Soon he will find new allies, as deadly as those he opposes, and just as trecherous.In far-off Houndhallow, Gwen Adair and Ian Blakley’s pagan and celestial followers attempt to overcome their differences, but the consequences are sure to be deadly. And the vow knight Elsa LaFey searches the wilds of Tenumbra for the key to end the war once and for all - the power of the winter vow. But time is running out, and the ultimate confrontation approaches.

In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown. Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next bestselling novel. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write. But when she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie wonders if she might be dealing with ancestral memory, making her the only living person who knows the truththe ultimate betrayalthat happened all those years ago, and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her.

It’s the start of a winter like any other in our world, where Gerda works in her beloved conservatory while her twin brother, Kai, falls in love with their beautiful new neighbor. Everything changes when a sliver of an enchanted mirror begins to corrupt Kai. The Snow Queen, a barely-remembered character in Scandinavian folktales, is revealed to be anything but imaginary when she abducts Kai to fix her broken mirror than can make winter last forever. If Gerda wants to save her brother and stop the Snow Queen, she will have to journey through all four seasons in a world where birds can change into humans, trolls lurk in the forest, and memory is a fickle thing.This memorable retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” is sure to delight fans of fairy tales and adventure.

From best-selling author Holly Webb comes a gorgeous wintery story of a very special friendship, just in time for Christmas. Amelia is exploring the huge, old house where her family are spending Christmas when she finds a diary hidden in the attic. It was written by a boy struggling to look after an abandoned wolf pup. Before she knows it, Amelia is transported into the wintry world of the diary. Fans of Holly Webb's The Reindeer Girl will delight in this beautiful winter's tale.