Sasha and the White Bear

Sasha's family is starving when a great white bear arrives with an impossible bargain. In exchange for one year of her life, he will restore everything hunger, debt, and a bitter winter have taken from them. Sasha agrees and is carried beyond the last familiar road to a hidden palace beneath the mountain, where invisible servants move through silent halls, forbidden doors guard old secrets, and a mysterious man visits only after darkness falls.

By day, the bear is her watchful protector, powerful enough to cross frozen rivers and gentle enough to earn her trust. By night, the unseen stranger becomes her companion, sharing stories, hidden wounds, and a growing desire that neither of them can deny. As affection deepens into passion, Sasha begins to believe she could love a man whose face she has never seen, until a warning from home plants fear inside the fragile happiness they have built.

One forbidden flame shatters the palace and sends the man she loves into the hands of a ruthless queen determined to force him into another marriage. To reach him, Sasha must cross enchanted kingdoms, resist voices shaped from regret, bargain with ancient women, and follow the winds beyond the borders of the known world. Every road demands a price, every promise hides a danger, and time is running out before the wedding seals his fate, but how far will Sasha go to reclaim the love she nearly lost?