372 | Short Story: The Price of Frost (Advanced English Story)

Title: The Price of Frost

Level: Advanced (C1-C2)

Description

Saga Lehtonen has spent nineteen years hiding a family gift she barely understands — the power to summon frost and ice at will. When an unprecedented wildfire threatens to burn her Finnish village to the ground, she finally unleashes the full extent of her ability in public for the first time, saving hundreds of homes in a single desperate act.

But magic this powerful was never meant to be free. As Saga's body grows colder by the week, her heartbeat slowing toward a...