In a world built on lies, only the truth can break you.

In 1810, the Atlantia vanished from the Atlantic Ocean only to reappear, trapped in a frozen inland sea beneath endless ice and pale skies.

Three hundred years later, the ship's descendants have built a glittering matriarchy sustained by a strange new magic-one that grants women power and drives men to madness. In New London, tension thrums between those who revere the memory of England and those who would see it buried in snow.

Lillia Pennyworth, a Truthtaker gifted with the power to unearth secrets, lives on the edge of both worlds-useful, feared, and utterly alone. When the Lady Regent summons her to a distant frontier town to conduct an unorthodox trial, Lillia doesn't know what to expect. She certainly didn't foresee fleeing through the snowy woods with unlikely companions-a creature born of her own making in relentless pursuit. Nor did she believe she would do so with a man whose very gaze reveals the truth she's buried deep inside.

As forbidden truths come to light, she must decide what-and who-she's willing to risk for the fragile warmth of love.