THE KINGDOM THAT SLEEPS EVERY WINTER
Every year, when the first black snow falls, the kingdom sleeps.
Not by choice.
Not by magic anyone understands.
For four long months, every citizen of the ancient kingdom of Winterveil collapses into an unnatural slumber while the world outside freezes beneath endless storms.
But winter is never truly empty.
The roads begin to move.
The forests creep closer to the cities.
Whispers echo from abandoned homes.
And pale figures wearing human faces wander the silent streets beneath the snow.
Only a rare few remain awake during the long winter nights.
They are called the Winter Walkers.
When Aeron, a poor courier boy from the lower districts, survives the sleeping curse for the very first time, he is pulled into a hidden world buried beneath the kingdom’s frozen surface — a world of shifting cities, forgotten ruins, living blizzards, and terrifying creatures that should not exist.
But the deeper Aeron ventures into the sleeping kingdom, the more horrifying the truth becomes.
The winter was never a curse.
It was a seal.
And something beneath Winterveil is beginning to wake.
In a land where memories vanish with the snow and even reality changes during winter, survival may depend on discovering a secret the kingdom was never meant to remember.
Because when Winterveil finally awakens…
it may no longer be human.