Icebound

"e;Hope does not belong to one person. It survives when someone chooses to stay."e; In the Kingdom of Arenthal, a mysterious affliction known as the Stillness is freezing people mid-breath, trapping them inside their own motionless bodies. This is not a story about the curse, but about Wren—a quiet stable boy with no prophecy or power—who discovers that the only cure for a heart lost to despair is the simple, radical act of refusing to leave.