Some tethers are made by fate. Others, by defiance. In the forgotten town of Ashport, where fog clings to the sea and time seems to stall, Eira lives a quiet life of books and stillness. But her world tilts the day a stranger steps from the fog—a man with winter in his voice and a storm behind his eyes. Vale isn’t just a man. He is Winter —one of the Four Seasons bound by an ancient oath not to interfere with mortal lives. But the tether between him and Eira was not supposed to happen. And now, the more he tries to stay away, the more fate—and something older—pulls them together. As tensions rise between the immortal Seasons and a forgotten threat stirs beneath the surface, Vale must decide if breaking the oath is worth risking everything. Because some love stories were never meant to bloom in the cold. And some souls remember what the mind forgets. Winter’s Keeper is the first novel in the Phantom Oath series—a romantic, myth-infused fantasy about power, sacrifice, and the quiet intensity of a love that defies the seasons.