Ledge

On a narrow, frozen shelf of rock high above a bottomless chasm, a few hundred humans cling to survival. This is the Ledge, and its people live in perpetual cold and hunger, hemmed in by sheer cliffs and hunted by the Glacians — winged, ice-dwelling predators who descend to carry off their chosen victims. Dawsyn Sabar has survived the Ledge's brutality her whole life, wielding an axe and trusting no one, ever since the creatures took the rest of her family.

When Dawsyn is finally seized and dragged into the Glacians' world, she expects to die. Instead she finds an unlikely ally in Ryon, a half-Glacian mercenary with his own reasons for wanting to bring their kind down. Thrown together on a desperate flight across a merciless landscape, the two strike a wary bargain — and a dangerous attraction neither of them wants begins to grow.

Ledge is the first book in Stacey McEwan's Glacian Trilogy: a dark, fast-paced fantasy romance built on survival, vengeance, and enemies-to-lovers tension. Sharp-edged and atmospheric, it introduces a bleak frozen world and a heroine as hard and unyielding as the ice around her.