The release date for the English version of 'A Winter's Promise' by
Christelle Dabos is Sep 2018. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
After a catastrophe known as "The Rupture," the planet was split up into several floating heavenly islands. Now called Arks, they have all evolved in various ways and seem to have had a varied connection with time, resulting in the existence of radically diverse worlds that are both interconnected and separate today. And the spirit of an all-powerful progenitor lingers over all the Arks.
Ophelia is a resident of Anima, an ark where things possess souls. The little girl conceals her abilities to read things' souls, interact with them, and pass through mirrors behind her ratty scarf and bulky spectacles. Her tranquil life on the Ark of Anima is upended when she receives a marriage proposal from Thorn, a member of the formidable Dragon clan. Ophelia had to leave her home and join her fiancé to the far-off Ark of the Pole, to the floating capital. Why was she selected? Why did she have to pretend to be someone else? Unbeknownst to her at the moment, she has been turned into a deadly pawn in a scheme.