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Frosthaven Academy #1
Arctic Bonds
My mother died with secrets on her lips. Now those secrets are trying to kill me.
I came to Frosthaven Academy for a fresh start. What I found was a world I didn't know existed—and a body that's changing in impossible ways.
I heal instantly. I'm stronger than I should be. And when certain men touch me, my skin ignites with heat.
Luca, my RA, knows what I need before I do. His touch feels like coming home.
Professor Tomlinson watches me with barely controlled hunger, then pushes me away because wanting me could destroy his career.
Ash, the professor's reckless brother, makes me laugh for the first time since Mom died—and eases a grief I thought would drown me.
But these aren't just crushes. These connections are fated—ancient magic that's supposed to be rare.
And I'm manifesting bonds that shouldn't be possible.
The Council watches my every move. The headmaster wants me gone. Fifteen students before me have vanished without a trace. And everyone keeps telling me I'm dangerous—but no one will tell me why.
When my abilities explode during a fight, I'm forced into private training with a mysterious investigator who looks at me like I'm prey.
Or maybe like I'm something else entirely.
My mother kept me hidden for eighteen years. Now I'm uncovering the truth she died protecting.
Because in a world where bonds are power and being different means being hunted, some secrets are buried for a reason.
Perfect for fans Zodiac Academy, Rejected Mates, Pack Darling, Brutal Birthright
Fated Mates • Why Choose Romance • Shifter Academy • Forbidden Student/Teacher • Touch Her and Die • Found Family • Hybrid FMC • Possessive Alphas • Grief to Hope • Spicy
I came to Frosthaven Academy for a fresh start. What I found was a world I didn't know existed—and a body that's changing in impossible ways.
I heal instantly. I'm stronger than I should be. And when certain men touch me, my skin ignites with heat.
Luca, my RA, knows what I need before I do. His touch feels like coming home.
Professor Tomlinson watches me with barely controlled hunger, then pushes me away because wanting me could destroy his career.
Ash, the professor's reckless brother, makes me laugh for the first time since Mom died—and eases a grief I thought would drown me.
But these aren't just crushes. These connections are fated—ancient magic that's supposed to be rare.
And I'm manifesting bonds that shouldn't be possible.
The Council watches my every move. The headmaster wants me gone. Fifteen students before me have vanished without a trace. And everyone keeps telling me I'm dangerous—but no one will tell me why.
When my abilities explode during a fight, I'm forced into private training with a mysterious investigator who looks at me like I'm prey.
Or maybe like I'm something else entirely.
My mother kept me hidden for eighteen years. Now I'm uncovering the truth she died protecting.
Because in a world where bonds are power and being different means being hunted, some secrets are buried for a reason.
Perfect for fans Zodiac Academy, Rejected Mates, Pack Darling, Brutal Birthright
Fated Mates • Why Choose Romance • Shifter Academy • Forbidden Student/Teacher • Touch Her and Die • Found Family • Hybrid FMC • Possessive Alphas • Grief to Hope • Spicy
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242 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 14, 2025
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November 5, 2025
Ever have vegetarian meat? Like you know what it's supposed to be, and you can kind of see it, but it just isn't?
spoilers ahead.
I think this author had a pretty good idea in mind. She has the set up at school, the secrecy and the bonds. The unknown past, the super special naive main character and hot dudes. Then the depth ends there and it's why I just didn't get into this book.
let's start with main character:
She talks about her mother's death and we see some sadness but we end the depth there. No real sorrow, not a lot of context, no clue about any other portion of her life. We only get exactly what's happening in front of her face and for a single pov book that is not enough. She also sort of knows something is happening from the beginning and then boom everything is happening and for some reason she may be expelled and have her life ruined? How did that progress make any sense, but let's jump to plot.
plot:
Okay, another academy romance here for that. Then we toss in that nothing adds up. You can't talk about mates, wolves, powers etc. but the mean girls do and loudly. You can't talk about it, but the only class we see talks all about it? We can't talk about it but everyone at school is madly in love and showing open affection in supernatural ways. We can't talk about it, but there are wolves everywhere. It lacks consistency. Why would the main character who knows nothing be in so much trouble when they plan on them not knowing they have powers? It just makes the plot ridiculous.
Then the faculty and council telling her to stay clear of her mates also bugged me. I feel like not a single one of her mates was trying hard enough for neing fated. She just does what she wants and they just don't really try and it all falls apart. Where is the passion? The I have to have my mate? Arent these men wolves? Nothing?
Now our guys!:
Honestly could've benefitted from dual pov because they lack even more depth than our main character. Luca. I guess he is filling the empath role, because the 3 conversations we see that's what he is doing. Ash, is funny and a playful guy? Professor is the story teller then there is cafeteria guy, and Kane. and I'm guessing more? since the legend has more? How can we have like 7 dudes when we don't even get to know the three you've thrown at us in 186 pages? Again, we see the tropes they are there the guys are fitting into the harem roles that are well established but they stop after those roles. we know zero about them after that. The conversation the professor has with her about his future, his work, how they can never work it's that go to discussion for that trope and just didn't add anything.
Overall, we get 180+pages of what could be good but just falls flat. I wanted to like this I wanted a new series but setting up this many love interests and a plot line on actual speed? I am out.
spoilers ahead.
I think this author had a pretty good idea in mind. She has the set up at school, the secrecy and the bonds. The unknown past, the super special naive main character and hot dudes. Then the depth ends there and it's why I just didn't get into this book.
let's start with main character:
She talks about her mother's death and we see some sadness but we end the depth there. No real sorrow, not a lot of context, no clue about any other portion of her life. We only get exactly what's happening in front of her face and for a single pov book that is not enough. She also sort of knows something is happening from the beginning and then boom everything is happening and for some reason she may be expelled and have her life ruined? How did that progress make any sense, but let's jump to plot.
plot:
Okay, another academy romance here for that. Then we toss in that nothing adds up. You can't talk about mates, wolves, powers etc. but the mean girls do and loudly. You can't talk about it, but the only class we see talks all about it? We can't talk about it but everyone at school is madly in love and showing open affection in supernatural ways. We can't talk about it, but there are wolves everywhere. It lacks consistency. Why would the main character who knows nothing be in so much trouble when they plan on them not knowing they have powers? It just makes the plot ridiculous.
Then the faculty and council telling her to stay clear of her mates also bugged me. I feel like not a single one of her mates was trying hard enough for neing fated. She just does what she wants and they just don't really try and it all falls apart. Where is the passion? The I have to have my mate? Arent these men wolves? Nothing?
Now our guys!:
Honestly could've benefitted from dual pov because they lack even more depth than our main character. Luca. I guess he is filling the empath role, because the 3 conversations we see that's what he is doing. Ash, is funny and a playful guy? Professor is the story teller then there is cafeteria guy, and Kane. and I'm guessing more? since the legend has more? How can we have like 7 dudes when we don't even get to know the three you've thrown at us in 186 pages? Again, we see the tropes they are there the guys are fitting into the harem roles that are well established but they stop after those roles. we know zero about them after that. The conversation the professor has with her about his future, his work, how they can never work it's that go to discussion for that trope and just didn't add anything.
Overall, we get 180+pages of what could be good but just falls flat. I wanted to like this I wanted a new series but setting up this many love interests and a plot line on actual speed? I am out.
December 13, 2025
Fast paced shifter RH that reminded me a lot of Kit Davenport and Phoenix Rising. Things are happening so fast and there’s not much development so isn’t one that I had a strong connection too but it was entertaining.
Overall: 2.5
Overall: 2.5
December 19, 2025
DNF - i read chapter one and couldn’t go any further. Author has a great premise but doesn’t execute it very well. So much happens in that first chapter, it really should have spanned 5 chapters. Give me more info so i can get to know these characters! She’s on her way to the frozen north, her mom has died, she meets her fated mate and her new BFF…. All in chapter one!!!! Slow down! This reads like a rough draft to lay down the plot. PLEASE go back and fill in all the details! This could be a really great story….
December 5, 2025
Short
I dont think this series is for me personally. There was time jumps and it seemed to be moving too fast from the beginning but also slow at the same time..
I dont think this series is for me personally. There was time jumps and it seemed to be moving too fast from the beginning but also slow at the same time..
October 22, 2025
solid premise, execution is lacking
The story has great ingredients, but the telling of it feels rushed. Very little depth to the characters. Not sure why it wasn’t edited to allow for more fleshing out of ideas, especially since it kicks off a series. Dnf
The story has great ingredients, but the telling of it feels rushed. Very little depth to the characters. Not sure why it wasn’t edited to allow for more fleshing out of ideas, especially since it kicks off a series. Dnf
November 18, 2025
It’s only 186 pages, but I just couldn’t finish it. It’s very surface level and contrived. I thought I could finish it. It’s a short book. But when Headmaster Twilson (yes, that’s his actual name) calls her into his office to ask which guys she likes because she needs to stay away from them or she’ll be expelled, I had to call it because that’s actually ridiculous.
I wish there was more meat to these characters. Even our FMC - she’s grieving her mother, but you forget all about that until the author explicitly states it.
Also, I know this is picky of me, but I hate when people meet each other and then within a couple of days they’re referring to each other as “best friends”. Is nothing sacred? You don’t even know each other. Saying “you’re my best friend” to someone you meet two weeks ago is a little clingy.
As for the romantic relationships, the author took a risk having the characters fall into in-the-text archetypes by framing it in the folklore. If you’re going to state, in the text, what roles the parties are going to fall into, then those characters need to be fleshed out so they don’t read as a checkbox with a name and broad shoulders.
I wish there was more meat to these characters. Even our FMC - she’s grieving her mother, but you forget all about that until the author explicitly states it.
Also, I know this is picky of me, but I hate when people meet each other and then within a couple of days they’re referring to each other as “best friends”. Is nothing sacred? You don’t even know each other. Saying “you’re my best friend” to someone you meet two weeks ago is a little clingy.
As for the romantic relationships, the author took a risk having the characters fall into in-the-text archetypes by framing it in the folklore. If you’re going to state, in the text, what roles the parties are going to fall into, then those characters need to be fleshed out so they don’t read as a checkbox with a name and broad shoulders.
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December 22, 2025
I enjoyed the premise, but the writing was not good. Clunky and repetitive - often repeating things said on the previous page nearly word for word. Constantly using the phrase/ some version of since my mom died (again often within a page of each other). One chapter Rae is going to sleep hearing her roommate snore then having a dream, and then the next chapter she’s also going to sleep hearing her roommate snore.
The MMCs seemed like the same person “in the act.” If you understand my meaning. Luca and Ash were basically the same person - only let’s keep pointing out how safe and cared for Luca makes Rae feel and how playful Ash is (that why we understand they are different).
Additionally, everything felt rushed. Insta besties, insta love/lust. It was a lot of telling and not showing especially in the first quarter of the book. They go on the hike out of nowhere and then we get told leading up to Rae and Luca’s moment all the things he had been doing for her. Like we didn’t we see that instead of getting told now to make this moment make sense…
With all that said😅 I am going straight into book 2 though.
The MMCs seemed like the same person “in the act.” If you understand my meaning. Luca and Ash were basically the same person - only let’s keep pointing out how safe and cared for Luca makes Rae feel and how playful Ash is (that why we understand they are different).
Additionally, everything felt rushed. Insta besties, insta love/lust. It was a lot of telling and not showing especially in the first quarter of the book. They go on the hike out of nowhere and then we get told leading up to Rae and Luca’s moment all the things he had been doing for her. Like we didn’t we see that instead of getting told now to make this moment make sense…
With all that said😅 I am going straight into book 2 though.
November 25, 2025
⭐️☆☆☆☆ (1.5 stars) – Wanted to Love It, but It Fell Apart Fast
Frosthaven Academy started off as a quick, fast-paced read that seemed like it could grow into something fun, but it just never delivered. The moment the headmaster drama kicked in at Book 1, the plot stopped making sense, and everything spiraled from there.
The FMC and her mates never develop - if anything, they get worse. The guys are all basically trash, and the relationships feel shallow, rushed, and repetitive. I kept waiting for some growth or emotional depth, but it never came.
The story really needed more fleshing out and a lot more thought behind the worldbuilding and character arcs. Instead, it felt like a draft of a much better book that never got the revision it needed.
Honestly, I was especially disappointed because I wanted a compelling age-gap romance woven into a shifter academy setting - but this didn’t come close. A promising idea that ultimately went nowhere.
Frosthaven Academy started off as a quick, fast-paced read that seemed like it could grow into something fun, but it just never delivered. The moment the headmaster drama kicked in at Book 1, the plot stopped making sense, and everything spiraled from there.
The FMC and her mates never develop - if anything, they get worse. The guys are all basically trash, and the relationships feel shallow, rushed, and repetitive. I kept waiting for some growth or emotional depth, but it never came.
The story really needed more fleshing out and a lot more thought behind the worldbuilding and character arcs. Instead, it felt like a draft of a much better book that never got the revision it needed.
Honestly, I was especially disappointed because I wanted a compelling age-gap romance woven into a shifter academy setting - but this didn’t come close. A promising idea that ultimately went nowhere.
October 18, 2025
Novella length academy story, pnr, bonds, rh. Spoilers: the FMC is a college freshman whose single mother died five months before the story begins. She was raised as a human child but we don't get much information about her background or how she ended up at a school in Alaska. Strange things happen to her, like extra strength and stamina, plus she gets electric shocks when she touches certain fellow students. Turns out this school is for latent wolf shifters who are recruited some unexplained way? Our heroine exhibits her abilities way too quickly and attracts the suspect Council, who imply she's a rogue plant. The storyline is quite interesting but the writing is over dramatic throughout. The series appears scheduled for fast release so I'll probably continue.
December 21, 2025
3.5 stars
Good idea and concept. We are just dropped into the middle of the story in a fast paced way with no background information on Rae. I understand the need for secrecy but the fact they expect students that know diddly squat about the hidden world to know to keep/control their new abilities immediately secret and then punish them when they fail is totally ludicrous. But I guess that totally plays into the explanation we get in the last chapter.
Other than that, a little more world development and character building would have made this book stronger. I still liked it for what it is though and will continue on to book 2.
Good idea and concept. We are just dropped into the middle of the story in a fast paced way with no background information on Rae. I understand the need for secrecy but the fact they expect students that know diddly squat about the hidden world to know to keep/control their new abilities immediately secret and then punish them when they fail is totally ludicrous. But I guess that totally plays into the explanation we get in the last chapter.
Other than that, a little more world development and character building would have made this book stronger. I still liked it for what it is though and will continue on to book 2.
October 16, 2025
Good
This was a cute and fun little start to a series that I enjoyed although I feel the blurb is far too long and revealing for such a short book. But despite its length it packed a fair bit into the story and was very enjoyable and well written.
This was a cute and fun little start to a series that I enjoyed although I feel the blurb is far too long and revealing for such a short book. But despite its length it packed a fair bit into the story and was very enjoyable and well written.
November 14, 2025
fast paced
I feel this book just skims the surface of what could be. Hoping to get more in depth info on the characters and plot in the next book. Enjoying the storyline so far and looking forward to the next.
🌟🌟🌟🌟
I feel this book just skims the surface of what could be. Hoping to get more in depth info on the characters and plot in the next book. Enjoying the storyline so far and looking forward to the next.
🌟🌟🌟🌟
November 17, 2025
Interesting
This has been a really interesting read. It has all the trauma, sexy times, and intrigue. Can’t wait to start the next book in the series and see what happens next
This has been a really interesting read. It has all the trauma, sexy times, and intrigue. Can’t wait to start the next book in the series and see what happens next
November 17, 2025
In love with this book
Went in pretty blind and am happy with the outcome. I am definitely continuing this series and looking forward to seeing what she does in the next book.
Went in pretty blind and am happy with the outcome. I am definitely continuing this series and looking forward to seeing what she does in the next book.
December 3, 2025
Really Good…
Happened upon this book and decided to give it a try despite not being familiar with the author. It was actually very good, interesting premise and characters…
Happened upon this book and decided to give it a try despite not being familiar with the author. It was actually very good, interesting premise and characters…
December 16, 2025
Will not be continuing the series . Decided to finish the book since I already started but truth is this book is just not for me.
December 27, 2025
Plot holes, insta lust, missing information, pacing seems off.
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