5⭐️2🌶 I finished reading the ARC of this one last evening. I stayed up too late to finish it, but it was so worth it. This one blew me away. I was hooked by this story from the beginning. Elorie is a human living on a freezing cold island devoid of magic. She tends to the dead Fae prisoners and human dead from her village. One day during a rebel attack in the village she flees and runs into the Fae prison thinking that the Fae rebels won't chase her there, but they follow anyway. She stumbles her way through the dark corridors of the prison and comes upon a mysterious Fae who then saves her from the rebel attack suffering a fatal wound himself. Elorie can't just let him die. She somehow resurrects him with powerful magic. Magic that not only she shouldn't possess but magic that should not work where she is. News of her impossible feat gets back to the king and she is summoned to him. She enters into a b...