Winterbriar: A Nutcracker Retelling by L V Hernandez | Mexican Horror Romance

Clara Sanchez's 26th Birthday and Winter Break is coming up, along with her friend group's annual pre-Christmas party and Secret Santa exchange. It's all nothing but good things. Or at least it should be. She's hiding something from everyone. Ten months ago, a fall during class diagnosed her with a degenerative disease that will end her ballet career before it even starts. After months of hiding bruises, fatigue and trembling limbs, she's decided to tell everyone after her Tio Drosslemeyer's party. But on Christmas Eve, creatures from another realm attack and she falls into the fae realm. The Winter Court, one of the four Faerie Realms that exist outside the mortal plane is where the usurper- Rudolph Ratkin-has taken over and draining all the magick within the realm. He's collected pieces of the Starcore, the very creation magick that keeps the realm alive. Rudolph plans to use the Winter Solstice to end the Court and everyone still intertwined with its magick. With the cursed Prince Han, a friend and something more from another lifetime, her mouse Blossom, and the surviving members of the other clans - Clara has to stop him. Before the Winter Solstice arrives and all is lost.