The ice is melting. The humans are coming. And one troll still stands guard.
High in the Arctic wilderness, where the aurora ripples across endless night, Irba endures. She is a troll of legend, older than the glaciers themselves, bound to the earth and to Ranok, the great polar bear who shares her hunts and her silence. Together they roam the snowfields and guard the hidden places of the north, sustained by magic as ancient as the mountains. But with each passing season, the ice recedes and humans press deeper into her land, leaving their tracks in snow that once belonged only to her. Irba watches, waits, and wonders how long she can hold her ground.
For readers of Katherine Arden's The Bear and the Nightingale and Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver, The Last Binding weaves myth, magic, and loss into a haunting fairy tale of the far north.
