On the longest night of the year, Sera enters the Winter Market to save her brother from the Night Queen's curse. The only Fae who can help is Cael, a lonely Light Keeper who asks for eight nights, eight candles, and her company in return.
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A holiday romantasy about bargains, brotherly devotion, and the light people make for each other in the dark.
For three years, Sera has watched her brother Theo fall into a cursed sleep each sunset, trapped between life and death by the Night Queen. He wakes for only one hour at dawn, weaker every day, while every healer, priest, spirit, and spell fails him.
On the longest night of the year, Sera goes to the Winter Market, where the Fae trade in memories, moonlight, secrets, and dangerous bargains. At the market's heart she finds Cael, one of the last Light Keepers, a Fae who can forge true light from hope, warmth, joy, and connection.
Cael can break Theo's curse, but his price is not gold or blood. He asks for eight nights of Sera's company. Each night they will bring a small piece of light into the darkness and kindle one flame in a crystal lantern. On the eighth night, if the bargain holds, the lantern will burn bright enough to free her brother.
But the Fae never bargain simply, and the Night Queen does not release what she has claimed without a fight.
The Lightkeeper's Gift is a tender holiday original from Jennie Wren Foster, blending winter magic, slow-burn romance, and the kind of hope that grows one candle at a time.
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