Echo North

When a girl scarred as a child by a wolf attack finds her father half-frozen in the winter forest, guarded by a great white wolf, she strikes a desperate bargain: she will live with the creature for one year in exchange for her father's safety. Beneath a snow-covered mountain she discovers an enchanted house whose rooms must be stitched together each night to keep it from unraveling, and a wondrous library where the books are mirrors that open onto other worlds. Wandering those worlds, she meets a kind young man trapped within them, and a friendship deepens into something more. But the house is bound by an old enchantment and a jealous, ancient power, and the longer the year stretches on, the more its rooms slip away. Drawing on the Norwegian tale of East of the Sun and West of the Moon, with echoes of Beauty and the Beast and Tam Lin, this story follows a heroine who refuses to be a passive prize and instead takes up needle, courage, and curiosity to undo a curse. Lyrical and wintry, it weaves loyalty, sacrifice, and the cost of love into a quiet, immersive fairy tale about choosing to fight for the people and places you cherish.