In the city-state of Os, female magic isn't just discouraged — it's banned by law, punishable by death. Callista knows this better than anyone. After watching her aunt executed for wielding the same frost magic that runs through her own blood, she makes a choice that will define the next fifteen years of her life: she disguises herself as a man and buries who she really is.
That careful, painful survival strategy works, until it doesn't. When Lord Hethias attacks her father Damon and massacres her entire clan, Callista is left with nothing left to protect by staying hidden. For the first time in over a decade, she has to choose between the disguise that's kept her alive and the power that could actually change something.
She chooses the power. Callista awakens her ancient bloodline, reveals her true identity, and steps into a fight that's bigger than her own survival — one built around female mages' rights in a world that has spent generations telling women like her to disappear.
"Awakened, She Rises as the Frost" is a story about the cost of hiding and the strength it takes to stop. Callista's transformation from a woman in disguise to a force no one can ignore is only the beginning.
The full story follows Callista's fight against Lord Hethias and her battle to change the world that tried to silence her.
