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Frostbird Awaken: A Why Choose Spicy Urban Fantasy Fae Romance
She finally has something worth fighting for. But the clock hasn't stopped ticking.
🔥 BONUS EDITION Download today and get the exclusive bonus story! Cedric decides to join his housekeeper on her day off while she visits family. Despite Meren’s strict warnings against any shenanigans, the Incubus finds he simply can’t resist a little fun…
Lyra Vale has finally found what she spent a lifetime searching a place in the hidden Fae realm, the Vei, a found family, and two rival Phoenix lords fiercely determined to keep her alive. But as her twenty-fifth birthday looms, the centuries-old curse hunting her grows stronger by the day.
As Halloween draws near, monsters creep from the shadows, Dark Fae vanish without a trace, and a dangerous enemy returns with a terrifying new ally. Every lost memory Lyra unlocks pulls back the curtain on a truth far greater—and far more lethal—than she ever imagined. A power that has been waiting centuries for the Frostbird to awaken.
With the fate of the Fae courts hanging in the balance, Lyra must harness her volatile ice magic and piece together her past before the dark forces close in.
Will she claim her true power in time to save those she loves... or lose everything she’s finally found?
If you love high-stakes Fae magic, dark autumn aesthetics, and slow-burn romantic tension, scroll up and click Read to continue the addictive Frostborne Legacy series today!
🔥 BONUS EDITION Download today and get the exclusive bonus story! Cedric decides to join his housekeeper on her day off while she visits family. Despite Meren’s strict warnings against any shenanigans, the Incubus finds he simply can’t resist a little fun…
Lyra Vale has finally found what she spent a lifetime searching a place in the hidden Fae realm, the Vei, a found family, and two rival Phoenix lords fiercely determined to keep her alive. But as her twenty-fifth birthday looms, the centuries-old curse hunting her grows stronger by the day.
As Halloween draws near, monsters creep from the shadows, Dark Fae vanish without a trace, and a dangerous enemy returns with a terrifying new ally. Every lost memory Lyra unlocks pulls back the curtain on a truth far greater—and far more lethal—than she ever imagined. A power that has been waiting centuries for the Frostbird to awaken.
With the fate of the Fae courts hanging in the balance, Lyra must harness her volatile ice magic and piece together her past before the dark forces close in.
Will she claim her true power in time to save those she loves... or lose everything she’s finally found?
If you love high-stakes Fae magic, dark autumn aesthetics, and slow-burn romantic tension, scroll up and click Read to continue the addictive Frostborne Legacy series today!
315 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 31, 2026
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Kal Locksley
13 books42 followersMy love of storytelling stems from a time I would entertain my younger brothers with tales of adventure, based on whatever it was they could imagine.
My love of the written word comes from my mother, an English teacher, who taught me to appreciate the art of storytelling, as much as the storytelling itself.
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Review of advance copy received from Author
The Real Love Story in This Sequel Belongs to the Werewolf and the Couturier
Frostbird Awaken: A Why Choose Spicy Urban Fantasy Fae Romance, by Kal Locksley picks up four months after Frostbird Reborn. Lyra Vale waits tables at the Moonstone Café, trains with a werewolf named Luca at a gym called the Quarry, and counts down to her twenty-fifth birthday, the day Tess has sworn to end her. Every one of her human lives has come back to her. Isolde’s life hasn’t. Meanwhile, a blond stranger keeps calling her Isolde and seems to know far more about her past than she does.
This one wasn’t nearly as gripping as the first book. I forced myself to finish, hoping it would pick up and snare me. It didn’t.
The story runs on Lyra’s lost memories, and that’s where it lost me. Every few chapters, something cracks the door open: a dream of a forest, a bitter tincture, an enchanted window, a shard of ice, a mirror. Each one shows a single scene and then shuts again. I get that the withholding is intentional. A good tease builds, though, and these fragments don’t follow any pattern I could track. I wasn’t assembling a picture. I was collecting puzzle pieces from different boxes.
It doesn’t help that Lyra isn’t the one digging. She lives with a Seer, rules the Veil, and once studied ancient architecture. You’d think she’d be devouring everything she could find on the Faedoms, anything to shake a memory loose. Instead, she mostly waits for someone else to hand her the key. Ryn even tells her, “There is absolutely no excuse for you being this uncurious.” He’s right.
The lore has the same problem. The ideas are interesting. Every human town grows its own Faedoms. Every Veil is an island, with ferries, traders, and a few pirate crews sailing between them. Ashwood exists inside every Umbravale at once. Before the Phoenix line took Ember Row, the Fae rulers wore masks instead of crowns. But almost all of it comes out in walk-and-talk dialogue, gets a few lines, and disappears. No one can tell Lyra what a Frostbird actually is. No one can say what kind of Fae Tess is. Kael admits Fae history only gets clear about thirty thousand years back. By the end, I had more holes than a map.
Book one centered on Lyra, Kael, and Ryn, and here that triangle barely moves. In chapter one, she ties the stolen ribbons into her hair to signal she’s ready, and the courtship that follows is almost entirely physical. Both brothers end up running her a bath. The scenes are steamy, but I came out of them knowing nothing new about how she feels about either man. Ryn gets the strongest moment, a confession about the night Isolde died that I wish the book had built on. Kael mostly repeats his offer to keep her safe in Ember Row.
Lyra does grow. She stops flinching, throws ice daggers, and holds her own in a fight. But most of it is announced rather than earned. We’re told she broke a man’s jaw at the gym. She studies her reflection in a shop window and decides she’s finally taking up space. Kael tells her she’s becoming a warrior. Her convictions bend whenever the plot needs them to. None of it felt like a natural progression. It felt forced.
The book leans on a loss late in the story to deliver its biggest emotional punch, and it didn’t land for me. One character’s grief made complete sense. Lyra’s didn’t. The book establishes early that she has her memories from her human lives back but almost none from her life as a Fae, so her history with this person amounts to a few short months. Honestly, she seemed closer to some of her newer friends. When she broke down, I fell right out of the story.
Blood drives the mystery this time. Strange objects drink from Lyra’s hand, and antique syringes keep turning up where they shouldn’t. Celeste, a vampire geneticist, runs the samples. I liked Celeste, and I liked the question of why everyone wants Lyra’s blood. But the answers arrive as lab-bench lectures on telomeres and methylation, not as anything Lyra figures out herself.
The side characters carry a lot of the weight. Miro is still the best part of this series, and his romance with grumpy Luca is sweet, funny, and honestly had more development than the main triangle. Callie’s plan to put a shirtless Kael on the corner spinning an arrow sign made me laugh out loud.
I’d also have liked more from the antagonist. The blond stranger shows up in chapter one and he’s unsettling, but his history with Isolde stays behind the same locked door as everything else.
Will I read the next book? Yes, but only because I want to learn what happened in Lyra’s past lives and finally see her lost memories resolved. Not because the book hooked me and made me deseprate to read the next.
Content Warnings:
graphic violence
character death
grief, panic attacks
triggers tied to past domestic abuse
blood-drinking
explicit open-door scenes including throat-holding
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
Frostbird Awaken: A Why Choose Spicy Urban Fantasy Fae Romance, by Kal Locksley picks up four months after Frostbird Reborn. Lyra Vale waits tables at the Moonstone Café, trains with a werewolf named Luca at a gym called the Quarry, and counts down to her twenty-fifth birthday, the day Tess has sworn to end her. Every one of her human lives has come back to her. Isolde’s life hasn’t. Meanwhile, a blond stranger keeps calling her Isolde and seems to know far more about her past than she does.
This one wasn’t nearly as gripping as the first book. I forced myself to finish, hoping it would pick up and snare me. It didn’t.
The story runs on Lyra’s lost memories, and that’s where it lost me. Every few chapters, something cracks the door open: a dream of a forest, a bitter tincture, an enchanted window, a shard of ice, a mirror. Each one shows a single scene and then shuts again. I get that the withholding is intentional. A good tease builds, though, and these fragments don’t follow any pattern I could track. I wasn’t assembling a picture. I was collecting puzzle pieces from different boxes.
It doesn’t help that Lyra isn’t the one digging. She lives with a Seer, rules the Veil, and once studied ancient architecture. You’d think she’d be devouring everything she could find on the Faedoms, anything to shake a memory loose. Instead, she mostly waits for someone else to hand her the key. Ryn even tells her, “There is absolutely no excuse for you being this uncurious.” He’s right.
The lore has the same problem. The ideas are interesting. Every human town grows its own Faedoms. Every Veil is an island, with ferries, traders, and a few pirate crews sailing between them. Ashwood exists inside every Umbravale at once. Before the Phoenix line took Ember Row, the Fae rulers wore masks instead of crowns. But almost all of it comes out in walk-and-talk dialogue, gets a few lines, and disappears. No one can tell Lyra what a Frostbird actually is. No one can say what kind of Fae Tess is. Kael admits Fae history only gets clear about thirty thousand years back. By the end, I had more holes than a map.
Book one centered on Lyra, Kael, and Ryn, and here that triangle barely moves. In chapter one, she ties the stolen ribbons into her hair to signal she’s ready, and the courtship that follows is almost entirely physical. Both brothers end up running her a bath. The scenes are steamy, but I came out of them knowing nothing new about how she feels about either man. Ryn gets the strongest moment, a confession about the night Isolde died that I wish the book had built on. Kael mostly repeats his offer to keep her safe in Ember Row.
Lyra does grow. She stops flinching, throws ice daggers, and holds her own in a fight. But most of it is announced rather than earned. We’re told she broke a man’s jaw at the gym. She studies her reflection in a shop window and decides she’s finally taking up space. Kael tells her she’s becoming a warrior. Her convictions bend whenever the plot needs them to. None of it felt like a natural progression. It felt forced.
The book leans on a loss late in the story to deliver its biggest emotional punch, and it didn’t land for me. One character’s grief made complete sense. Lyra’s didn’t. The book establishes early that she has her memories from her human lives back but almost none from her life as a Fae, so her history with this person amounts to a few short months. Honestly, she seemed closer to some of her newer friends. When she broke down, I fell right out of the story.
Blood drives the mystery this time. Strange objects drink from Lyra’s hand, and antique syringes keep turning up where they shouldn’t. Celeste, a vampire geneticist, runs the samples. I liked Celeste, and I liked the question of why everyone wants Lyra’s blood. But the answers arrive as lab-bench lectures on telomeres and methylation, not as anything Lyra figures out herself.
The side characters carry a lot of the weight. Miro is still the best part of this series, and his romance with grumpy Luca is sweet, funny, and honestly had more development than the main triangle. Callie’s plan to put a shirtless Kael on the corner spinning an arrow sign made me laugh out loud.
I’d also have liked more from the antagonist. The blond stranger shows up in chapter one and he’s unsettling, but his history with Isolde stays behind the same locked door as everything else.
Will I read the next book? Yes, but only because I want to learn what happened in Lyra’s past lives and finally see her lost memories resolved. Not because the book hooked me and made me deseprate to read the next.
Verdict: A middle book that holds its answers hostage. Read it if book one left you needing to know who Isolde was, but expect fragments, not a payoff.
Content Warnings:
graphic violence
character death
grief, panic attacks
triggers tied to past domestic abuse
blood-drinking
explicit open-door scenes including throat-holding
I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.
Review of advance copy received from Autor
ARC REVIEW:
i don't know how i got this lucky because i was able to read this know.
The story is beautiful, Lyra is a character SO deep and a Little broken. She has lived so much and the memories are dificult to process
Kael is a dream, a protective soul That would give anything for His love.
Ryn, poor Rhyn. 💔 I cried but no with angel, it was because i was worried for him. I still am.
He loves her as much as His brother but there ir a darkness in His soul and he need to fight against it.
I have to say, it was a shorts book, i was so invest and sisnt realice i was at 95% and when the end it me on the face i was so sad.
I hope the aKal (give us more of this story because it was so pure and deep.
Ah i can't forget about Miro and Luca 😍 so cuute
The Kindle vertsion Aldo hasta shorts soy named The Party Never ends and indont know how but i was into it so quickly also to realice that it was shorts bit deep.
This and Frostbird Reborn are a must.
i don't know how i got this lucky because i was able to read this know.
The story is beautiful, Lyra is a character SO deep and a Little broken. She has lived so much and the memories are dificult to process
Kael is a dream, a protective soul That would give anything for His love.
Ryn, poor Rhyn. 💔 I cried but no with angel, it was because i was worried for him. I still am.
He loves her as much as His brother but there ir a darkness in His soul and he need to fight against it.
I have to say, it was a shorts book, i was so invest and sisnt realice i was at 95% and when the end it me on the face i was so sad.
I hope the aKal (give us more of this story because it was so pure and deep.
Ah i can't forget about Miro and Luca 😍 so cuute
The Kindle vertsion Aldo hasta shorts soy named The Party Never ends and indont know how but i was into it so quickly also to realice that it was shorts bit deep.
This and Frostbird Reborn are a must.
Review of advance copy received from Author
This book is perfect for the Halloween season! Halloween is spread throughout the entire book as a theme and I just found this perfect for spooky season. If you have not read the first book, I definitely recommend. As usual, Kal depicts multiple magical worlds that are all interconnected. She is so clever and you really feel like you are walking through all of the different worlds. What I like is this story flows really well and you devour it so fast. There is definitely more love and heartache this time.
I love the continuation of Lyra's journey and how she is trying to understand her past memories, while also determining and staying strong to who she is as a person now. She is fierce, loyal, independent and in a very spicy love triangle. Currently, I am voting for Ryn but we'll see what happens in the next book. There was also a crazy twist at the end that has me questioning what will happen next and which paths Lyra, Ryn and Kael will take.
@Kal Locksley - you delivered once again with, Miro. I want him in my life. He is absolutely hilarious, opinionated, sassy, loyal and an amazing fighter. I loved him in book one but he slayed in this book. THANK YOU haha
I am ready for the next book - please and thank you ;) Thanks for giving me the opportunity to read this ARC!
I love the continuation of Lyra's journey and how she is trying to understand her past memories, while also determining and staying strong to who she is as a person now. She is fierce, loyal, independent and in a very spicy love triangle. Currently, I am voting for Ryn but we'll see what happens in the next book. There was also a crazy twist at the end that has me questioning what will happen next and which paths Lyra, Ryn and Kael will take.
@Kal Locksley - you delivered once again with, Miro. I want him in my life. He is absolutely hilarious, opinionated, sassy, loyal and an amazing fighter. I loved him in book one but he slayed in this book. THANK YOU haha
I am ready for the next book - please and thank you ;) Thanks for giving me the opportunity to read this ARC!
October 23, 2026
I want to start by saying thank you to the author for giving me her book to review as an ARC reader, I loved book 1 and was so excited for book 2! Also love the Halloween vibes even with the release date being Halloween as well! Fits so perfectly!
I really loved how we went on this fractured rediscovery journey with Lyra. Following on from book 1 after the discovery that she is Isolde reincarnated, she remembers all the human lives she’s had.
The disjointed and fractured way that the memories come to Lyra in small fragments really helps you understand her confusion as she tries to figure out what happened to cause all of the heartbreak that she knows she’s gone through.
We get loads of action towards the end and a little more clarity but a lot more questions and it really sets up the next book.
I’m obsessed with Miro and Luca and wouldn’t mind a spin off especially with their grumpy x sunshine trope!
I really loved how we went on this fractured rediscovery journey with Lyra. Following on from book 1 after the discovery that she is Isolde reincarnated, she remembers all the human lives she’s had.
The disjointed and fractured way that the memories come to Lyra in small fragments really helps you understand her confusion as she tries to figure out what happened to cause all of the heartbreak that she knows she’s gone through.
We get loads of action towards the end and a little more clarity but a lot more questions and it really sets up the next book.
I’m obsessed with Miro and Luca and wouldn’t mind a spin off especially with their grumpy x sunshine trope!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Review of advance copy received from Author
I loved it even more than book 1 in the series! It's the perfect combination of worldbuilding, romance, and action. Magic is woven into every page, making me want to stroll through the markets on Ember Row, sit in a shadowy corner with a book in Umbravale, and work in a cute diner in the Veil. They all feel like home--that's how you know the author has created magic! I want to be friends with Lyra, Kael, Ryn (swoon, though I'm mad at him!), and especially Miro and Luca. I haven't had that feeling since reading Harry Potter...and that was a long time ago! It's like HP for adults who want romance and spice! It did end on one heck of a cliffhanger--so, I'm anxiously awaiting the next book!!! Ms. Locksley--if you're reading this, please hurry up!!!
Review of advance copy received from Author
I enjoyed book 2, I think Miro is who really made this book. I like Lyra but I wish she was a bit more take charge. She seems to want answers but mainly waits for them to find her. Ryn makes a comment in the book about how incurious she is and I think that is so accurate. You would think she would be trying harder to learn more if she is fated to die on her birthday. This was a short quick read and I will definitely be reading the next book to see what happens.
November 2, 2026
Huge thanks to Kal Locksley for the ARC!
I absolutely love this series—the story keeps building and stays so unpredictable. One moment I’m laughing, and the next, I’m feeling so tense. I was really hoping Lyra would be stronger and more herself by now, but she still relies on others to take the lead.
That ending had me near tears and completely shocked! Still Team Lyra all the way and dying to know if there’s a sequel.
Shoutout to Luca and Miro, I can’t wait to see their love blossom! 🩷❤️🤭
I absolutely love this series—the story keeps building and stays so unpredictable. One moment I’m laughing, and the next, I’m feeling so tense. I was really hoping Lyra would be stronger and more herself by now, but she still relies on others to take the lead.
That ending had me near tears and completely shocked! Still Team Lyra all the way and dying to know if there’s a sequel.
Shoutout to Luca and Miro, I can’t wait to see their love blossom! 🩷❤️🤭
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