Winter

by Raven Taylor

Winter has only ever been in love once. Lilly is the only thing he has ever cared about and living with the knowledge that he and his kind are responsible for her approaching death is more than he can bare. This, and the fact that she does not even known he exists, is enough to drive an already unhappy and self loathing apprentice angel of death to desperate measures. Yet there might be a way that they can be together for what time she still has, so long as his jealous and possessive mentor, Cane, can persuade the lord of death to allow it. Winter is about to embark on a journey that will teach him to see things in a new light, but can he learn the most important lesson of all; that without death there can be no life?

573 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 11, 2012

About the author

Raven Taylor is a British novelist writing character-driven social realism rooted in emotional truth rather than spectacle. Her work explores love, loyalty, masculinity, and inherited trauma, often set around music and subculture, but focused squarely on relationships and moral ambiguity rather than nostalgia.

Her novels examine people who love badly, cling fiercely, and struggle to reconcile who they were with who they are trying to become. She is particularly interested in chosen families, the afterlives of subculture, and the ways grief, guilt, and belonging shape adult identity.

Raven’s writing is uncompromising but compassionate, refusing neat redemption arcs while remaining deeply invested in the humanity of her characters. She lives and works in the North of England.