Autumn Dawn

Ria just wanted a few hours outside. Instead, a snapped throttle cable strands her and twelve-year-old frost giant Frode seventeen miles from home, in a blizzard, with wet boots, a dead phone, and a dampener bird that's shut off her magic. As the temperature drops and hungry monsters start circling the treeline, Ria learns what it means to be the one who needs rescuing - and that sometimes surviving the night just means trusting the right person to handle it.
A quick, cozy-tense trip back to the Aze family's world between full-length Convergence books. Contains no graphic love scenes. Some peril and monster violence, kid-in-danger tension handled without gore. This is a short story. Ria's story continues in Winter Frost: Hall Pass