Winter should not whisper a woman's name through a bedroom window in July. It should not follow her into a bookshop, rearrange the shelves and leave behind proof that the grandmother she was told had died may still be waiting somewhere inside the cold.
Eleanor Marsh has built a quiet life around old books and predictable routines. Then frost begins forming beneath her fingertips, voices call to her from behind walls of ice, and a stranger with glacial eyes arrives knowing far too much about her family.
As a strong female lead discovers hidden powers she cannot explain, Eleanor is pulled into an inherited ice magic family curse stretching back generations. At its centre lies Winterbloom Institute, a secret organisation that claims it can help people like her control their abilities. Its director offers answers about Eleanor's missing grandmother, but every answer carries a threat, and every trail leads deeper into a secret institute conspiracy thriller built on surveillance, captivity and lies.
With the people closest to her placed in danger, Eleanor must learn whether the cold inside her is a weapon, a warning or something far older. Her search becomes a missing grandmother paranormal mystery filled with impossible accidents, living frost and memories that may not belong to the dead. Beyond Winterbloom's locked doors, rumours of magical human experimentation dark fantasy conceal a plan that has been decades in the making.
Something ancient is stirring beneath the ice.
Blending ancient evil awakening fantasy suspense with the pace of a supernatural thriller, Whispers in the Marrow is dark contemporary fantasy for adults who enjoy buried family secrets, dangerous elemental magic, morally corrupt institutions and heroines forced to decide what their power will make of them.
Eleanor may be the only person capable of stopping what Winterbloom has begun, but the cold has been waiting for her far longer than she knows.
