{"product_id":"mistletoe-tough-sterling-g-wolfsfrost-9798242057920","title":"Mistletoe Tough","description":"\u003cp\u003e For readers who want their winter stories blood-bright and ceremonial-where covenants bind, claws answer doctrine, and snow moves with a will-this novella offers a hymn to agency paid in teeth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this holiday of covenants, folklore walks beside fresh-forged myth. Krampus keeps his punishments. Easter keeps its clause. Cheer at the Pole proves to be ceremony: sigils in ice, silk stitched with constellations, breath made visible as vow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinter takes its velvet gloves off. A hush settles over iron law while something hungry moves beyond the door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMagic has rules and reckoning. Power is contractual and costly. The calendar is not décor but jurisdiction-rites scheduled like storms, resurrections that answer one appointed bell. To cross a line is to pay in blood, memory, or shape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sovereign of wolves weighs the old treaty. A guardian of frost keeps the night's perimeter. A woman in red-magesta, faunist, and stubborn as winter wood-stands where hearth and threshold argue. Between them: villages that listen for bells, lakes veiled in rime, cottages that lean under a sickle moon while shadows act with intention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe body is both sanctuary and site of desecration. Secrets dress themselves as care. A single misstep at a fraught table can unmake a name. When the snow itself remembers its orders, love learns how quickly tenderness can harden into ritual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeral and elegiac, this is dark fantasy wrought in gothic keys, stitched with psychological dread and holiday horror. White rites lift grief into the aurora; claws speak faster than conscience; the hush learns, at last, to howl back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen protection becomes possession and every vow exacts its due, what remains of the self on the far side of the pact?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sterling G. Wolfsfrost\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798242057920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.30d","brand":"Sterling G. Wolfsfrost","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49171631309055,"sku":"9798242057920","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mistletoe-tough-sterling-g-wolfsfrost-9798242057920","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}