From the creator of Tears of Snow and The Hound comes horror author Raymond Jesse’s new series… The winterbourne saga With book 1 Frozen Frontier: The Ice Runner Seventeen years ago, the northern skies burned. A nuclear blast turned Alaska into a wasteland of eternal winter — a frozen tomb where the sun never rises, and the wind never stops screaming. In this world of ice and silence, only the ruthless survive. Grayson St. James once had a home, a purpose, and a small patch of warmth in the endless cold. But when the Reds — remnants of the Russian military — stormed through his settlement and left nothing but ashes and corpses behind, that last ember of hope died with them. What followed was not just grief — it was transformation. To hunt in this wasteland, to kill and survive where humanity has frozen to death, Grayson became something else. He became an Ice Runner — a mercenary for hire who tracks men, monsters, and mutants across the frozen frontier. Each mission pays in blood, each kill brings him closer to the line between vengeance and madness. As Grayson ventures deeper into the ruins of the old world, he uncovers a conspiracy buried beneath the ice — one that reaches back to the day the bomb fell. His search for revenge soon becomes a fight for answers, as he faces the truth of what created the endless winter… and what it’s turning him into. In a land where mercy can’t survive the cold, and where monsters wear the faces of men, Grayson St. James will forge his legend in the snow. Before he became one of the most dangerous and infamous Ice Runners to ever walk the frozen frontier — this is the story of how he was made.