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The Frost Court’s Gambit

by Richard French

Meredith Trevelyn has ended four dimensional crises the same way, by finding the wound beneath the rage and speaking to it. Now worlds are freezing one by one, a queen of ice breathes with a stranger’s patience, and the being wearing her crown is certain, ancient, unwounded, and perfectly happy to let Meredith keep trying to understand it.

It calls itself Azura. It believes stillness is mercy. It answers every argument, asks thoughtful questions, and says it is almost persuaded. Meanwhile the pathways between worlds go dark, and the cost of one more day at the table climbs.

Her mentor warned her. Some beings want you to try to understand them, because while you are trying, they are acting.

A quiet, devastating literary fantasy for readers of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and The Buried Giant, this is the story of a woman whose greatest virtue becomes the weapon aimed at everything she protects.

Some ice is just ice. She will learn it three days too late.

Start reading The Frost Court’s Gambit now and meet the enemy no one can love out of existence.

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Book Details

Pages
54
eBook ISBN
978-1969235214
Release Date
August 14, 2026

About the Author

Richard French

Richard French

Richard French takes complex systems and makes them understandable. He helped pioneer the open-source web as General Manager of OSDN (Slashdot, SourceForge) and also held executive leadership roles in enterprise technology at Automation Anywhere and Oracle. He now writes biblical commentary, speculative fiction, and non-fiction on ethics and reflective practice, work united by one question: what would you risk for the truth? He writes from the Pacific Northwest and publishes through Indie Pen Press.

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