A Strong and Sudden Thaw

Nearly a hundred years after the Ice changed the face of our world, the people of Moline work to reclaim the frozen land, both from the cold and from the dragons that now live in the hills outside of town--dragons that the government won't believe exist.

David Anderson knows very little of the world outside of his family's farm, until Callan, an assistant healer from the south, arrives in Moline and begins to teach him of a world he never knew, full of books and ideas, and history long forgotten. When Callan is found in the arms of another man--a crime in this post-Ice world--David learns a frightening truth about himself, and the difference between what is legal...and what is right.

After trouble hits the nearby town of Crawford, David and Callan discover the seeds of a plot that affects not only their home, but towns just like Moline across the world. Now they must fight to save their home, not only from the dragons, but from a government that wants them dead!

R.W. Day has been writing since she figured out which end of her crayon was 'up.' She's had about a dozen stories published or accepted for publication in magazines, including Deep Magic, Lenox Avenue, Cabinet des Fees, and Book of Dark Wisdom, and in anthologies including Damned Nation, Blood & Devotion, and (under a pseudonym) Best Gay Love Stories 2006. This is her first published novel.