Frostfire

This is the stunning first installment in a tale of love, betrayal and the need to belong. Here self-publishing phenomenon Hocking returns to the world of her million-copy bestselling Trylle trilogy, with an all-new adventure...Nineteen-year-old Bryn Aven is an outcast and yearns for a world where she's not only accepted, but loved. Especially given her dawning feelings for her sort-of-boss, Ridley Dresden. She's prepared to fight to get those things, but she's a half-blood amongst the Kanin, so gaining status is tough. Her almost-human people distrust strangers, living in small communities to escape human attention - and those from other tribes are almost as suspect. Bryn is determined to join the elite King's Guard, to protect the Kanin royal family. Surely then she'll find the acceptance she craves. However, her plans are put on hold when fallen hero Chase Dyster starts acting dangerously. He starts by going after their changelings, deliberately hidden within human families. And he escalates to kidnapping the Skojare's Queen. With her half-Skojare blood, Bryn is sent in to help resolve the crisis, but she's soon up against her nemesis, Chase himself.