Description
A merchant's daughter must join the grueling Frostwing Academy and learn to ride the mighty gryphons to save her family from financial ruin. ------------ Seventeen-year-old Herleva Montrose has lived a life of privilege, but her family is plunged into debt when a business deal goes wrong. Determined to fix her father's errors and erase the stain of shame from her family name, Herleva enlists in Frostwing Academy. The mountain stronghold is renowned throughout the kingdom for training gryphon riders -- the only ones capable of reaching the most remote villages in record time. Herleva doesn't relish pairing with one of the great beasts, but her partner is equally unenthusiastic. Surly and ill-tempered, Pol Roninsson has been pressed into volunteering as a partner for Frostwing Academy by his parents in an effort to instill responsibility in the young gryphon. He wants nothing to do with humans -- never mind a female one who is just as stubborn as he is. But as the pair begins to work together, trust slowly builds between them. A trust that could shatter at a moment's notice when Herleva is put into a precarious position. Will she remain true to her newfound partnership or will temptation triumph? ONC 2024 Prompt 60: "Look what you made me do." -- Taylor Swift Cover designed by @claraelisibeth
1 - The Academy
