The kingdom is starving. For three years, crops have failed. Rivers have dried into muddy trenches. Livestock has vanished. Entire villages have disappeared from maps as famine sweeps across the land. Y/N thought she had already lost everything. Then her parents died. Then her neighbors died. Then the village began to change. Strangers arrived under the cover of darkness. Desperate people became thieves. Hungry people became monsters. And real monsters began creeping from the forests to feed on the dying. The only person Y/N has left is her neighbors’ four-year-old daughter. A frightened little girl who refuses to leave Y/N’s side. With the village collapsing around them, Y/N must lead the child across a dangerous kingdom in search of safety. Along the way they will face starvation, cruel survivors, ancient creatures, forgotten magic, and a world slowly unraveling beneath the weight of hunger. Because if they stay, they won’t survive the winter.