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New friends should be breathing, right?

While launching into student life, Shani has to deal with the challenges of moving into a crumbling old house, getting to know her housemates, and the heady desires of new love. all the while, struggling with an unnerving backdrop of shadows and presences only she can sense.

After one crap A-level, Shani got her place at uni through the clearing process, so everything was very last-minute. Thus, she's ended up at the university's 'last chance saloon', a huge, but rundown old townhouse that maintenance seems to have forgotten. Still, beggars can't be choosers. At least she can afford the rent, and for that she's willing to put up with her new neighbours, the ones she can see, and the ones she can't.

But are the shadows that haunt the corners of this crumbling residence going to be as tolerant of Shani and her oblivious housemates?

Enjoy novelette, The Lodger, over a cup of coffee, or are you brave enough to read it by candlelight?!

Robin is half Winter Wildling. His mother comes from the Wild Wood to the north of the little town where he was raised. All his life his magic has been a battle: human control against savage, icy sorcery. He can keep it in check most of the time, but sometimes he must answer the call of midwinter that rests in his heart.

This volume brings together the first three stories from the Call of Midwinter series:

The Call of Winter

When Spring Arrives

A Song of Farewell